March 18, 2019

South Africa faces sixth day of blackouts as Eskom stumbles

The staggered power cuts are crippling businesses and leave roads gridlocked in cities throughout Africa’s most-industrialized economy.

March 18, 2019

Chinese go-slow on Australian coal imports may be starting to show

Chinese coal traders are reported to have cut back on buying from Australia after the length of time taken by customs to clear cargoes reportedly doubled.

March 18, 2019

Rio Tinto rejects push by activist shareholders to reveal emission targets

Miner has hit back at a push to make it more accountable for carbon emissions produced by its customers, including Chinese steel makers.

March 17, 2019

The coal miner who bet everything on U.S. power markets and lost

Eleven years ago, Cloud Peak Energy Inc. made an all-or-nothing bet its rivals were unwilling to match: that coal would remain indispensable to the U.S. power sector.

March 15, 2019

Massive storm hits wheat, cattle, mines in U.S. heartland

Blizzard-like conditions in the Dakotas, western Nebraska and Kansas are stressing winter wheat, inundating mines and disrupting ranches.

March 14, 2019

South Africa’s Exxaro Resources FY earnings jump on higher coal prices

Exxaro's coal export volumes surged to a record 8 million tonnes. Revenue jumped 12% to 25.491 billion rand compared with 22.813 billion rand the previous year.

March 13, 2019

Greece’s Public Power relaunches coal-fired power plants sale

PPC wants to conclude the sale by May and has been in touch with investors from the United States, Russia and China.

March 13, 2019

Mining’s dirty secret faces a climate reckoning

Producing a single metric ton of steel in a blast furnace typically releases around 2.3 tons of carbon dioxide, not much less than you’d get from burning a ton of…

March 13, 2019

South Africa union threatens Eskom ‘shutdown’ ahead of vote

The labor group is planning a march to the ruling African National Congress’s Johannesburg headquarters on March 30.

March 12, 2019

When paying $1 for a coal power plant is still paying too much

A New York-based company is in talks to buy the 847-megawatt San Juan Generating Station for $1, after four of its five owners decided to shut it down.