June 20, 2022

Surging energy prices force Japanese steel giant to revisit coal

Nippon Steel currently has minority stakes in six coking coal assets, mostly in Australia.

June 20, 2022

Austria returns to coal era in hedge against Russian power play

State-controlled Verbund, Austria’s biggest utility and most valuable company, was ordered late Sunday to prepare its mothballed Mellach coal-fired station for operation.

June 19, 2022

Germany is taking steps to bolster gas supplies, Habeck says

The German government is preparing to fire up more coal plants to keep the use of gas at a minimum.

June 19, 2022

New Wyoming facility to boost extraction of REEs from coal

The Wyoming Innovation Center is a place for companies and researchers to work on developing asphalt, graphene, graphite, agricultural char, and carbon fibre, and extract rare earths from coal and…

June 19, 2022

Australia’s opposition party flags more ambitious emissions goal

But coal and gas are going to continue to be “part of the mix.”

June 19, 2022

War derails plan to ditch coal after UK championed global cuts

The UK aims to keep a reserve of coal-fired plants available this winter rather than shutting almost all of them as planned

June 17, 2022

How the energy market buckled in a fossil fuel superpower

Australia has set alarms ringing over the challenge faced even by developed nations in managing and regulating the energy transition.

June 17, 2022

Methane-spewing coal mines are climate test for Australia’s new leader

“Methane leaking from coal mines has been ignored for many years, but tackling it is the ‘low hanging fruit’ in Australia’s effort to combat climate change.”

June 17, 2022

US coal plants’ fate hinges on June power-price auction

Suppliers to the grid stretching from New Jersey to Illinois will find out on June 21 whether their bids to provide backup capacity for the year starting June 2023 passed…

June 17, 2022

Glencore trading profit poised for best-ever year

Glencore expects adjusted operating profit to exceed $3.2bn for the first half of the year amid "unprecedented" market environment.