President Donald Trump's return to office could bring some temporary relief to the beleaguered U.S. coal industry.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), coal consumption hit another new record last year—8.77 billion metric ...

The electricity sector in China is particularly important to global coal markets, with one out of every three metric tons of ...

There are 206 coal-burning power plants left in the United States, which supply about 16 percent of the country’s energy.

most developed countries have moved away from coal-fired power. Although global coal consumption modestly declined in 2019, over the past decade it grew by an average annual rate of 0.8%.

While China leads the world in coal plant build-out, the nation is also installing twice as much solar and wind power as the rest of the world combined, according to Global Energy Monitor. So the ...