Coal-powered plants may see a revival under the Trump administration, as U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the U.S.

After years of steady decline, the price of a key type of coal used to make steel doubled in 2016, largely due to a spike in demand from China. This led some mines to hire more workers and ...

ongoing declines in coal production are the result of less coal being used to generate electric power domestically due to relatively low natural gas prices and 12 GW of coal-fired electricity ...

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...

One important use of coal was the making of iron, another key material for the development of industry. Coal being added to a blast furnace at Govan Iron Works, Glasgow, c1880. Coal was the fuel ...

especially thermal coal. The fossil fuel is used to generate 34% of the world's electricity but produces large amounts of carbon-dioxide and methane emissions during its production and consumption ...

Not only do different utilities each use a different mix of coal, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar, many areas also offer individuals the opportunity to buy "greener" power. These deals don't ...