Coal’s Connection to Current Events
People unfamiliar with the energy sector may see coal mining as an outdated, dirty business, that is if they see it at all. More recently, the coal business keeps hitting social media newsfeeds. Much...
View ArticleFrom The Editor - May 2017 - Committed to the Coal Business
You may not have noticed it, but a change has taken place. There was a slight change to the masthead (that column of fine print to the right) and the title below my signature is now different. Late...
View ArticleFrom The Editor - June 2017 - China Can’t Lead the Way
The U.S. announced that it would withdraw from the Paris climate accord as expected at the beginning of June and begin negotiations to either re-enter or negotiate an entirely new agreement with more...
View ArticleFrom The Editor - July-August 2017 - Restoring Constructive Engagement
Coal Age produced another successful Longwall USA during June. Overall, the technical program was informative and representatives from almost every U.S. longwall operation were on hand. The cover story...
View ArticleFrom The Editor - September 2017 - Broken Promises or a Bridge Too Far?
From the time President Donald Trump first appeared in West Virginia during his campaign saying he was going to put miners back to work, the anti-coal movement has been heckling him. The mainstream...
View ArticleFrom The Editor - October 2017 - The Sunset for Sue-and-Settle Litigation
Coal Age receives hundreds of press releases every month and sorting through them is normally a mundane task, as few pertain directly to coal mining and processing. More recently, however, there has...
View ArticleFrom The Editor - December 2017 - US Defends Fossil Fuels at COP23 in Bonn
Awkward was a term many used to describe the recent 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was held in Bonn, Germany, during mid-November. The...
View ArticleFrom The Editor - Jan-Feb 2018 - Clean, Beautiful Coal
Much to the chagrin of the opposition and the renewable energy zealots, President Donald Trump said it again, “clean, beautiful coal,” during his recent State of the Union Address. When he said those...
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