Due to ever increasing progressive political pressure promoting a “carbon-free” environment, domestic coal and uranium mining and electric utilities with coal-fired power plants are rapidly losing ground in our domestic energy mix.

The Illinois Basin export market has faced a steep drop in price over the past year driven by low demand, with one source projecting half as many exports in 2019 as compared with 2018.

The Old King Coal Festival Committee is requesting financial donations for a monument to honor the 119 miners who died in the explosion at the Orient #2 Mine in Illinois on December 21, 1951.

The reconstruction of Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania that was damaged by undermining earlier this year is ahead of schedule, but when West Virginia will begin its portion of the project is still up in the air.

Japan's Nippon Steel has agreed to a second-quarter semi-soft coking coal price of $129/t fob Australia with a New South Wales producer, down from their first-quarter settlement price of $132/t fob.

Foreign buyers of U.S. coal threw a lifeline to America's embattled mines in 2017-18. As domestic demand dwindled due to environmental regulation and competition from natural gas, export markets helped fill the gap, giving the coal industry a boost.