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In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

lift barriers to coal mining and prioritize coal leasing on US lands. Trump, a Republican, has long promised to boost what he calls “beautiful” coal to fire power plants and for other uses ...

President Donald Trump on April 8 signed a series of executive orders designed to bolster the coal industry by loosening mining restrictions, leasing, and exports.

The executive order will state that the US will back to selling coal mining rights on federal land and that coal will get designated as a critical mineral. US President Donald Trump is set to sign ...

It has produced more than 11 million tonnes of coal since opening in 2008 and was responsible for 86% of the UK's total coal output in recent months. The mine's operator, Merthyr (South Wales ...

The Meghalaya government has initiated legal coal mining more than a decade after the National Green Tribunal banned the hazardous rat-hole method of extracting the fossil fuel. On Monday (April ...