FRANKFURT, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Germany's hard coal importers want the Berlin government to prolong the operation of hard coal-to-power generation plants enlisted in last year's energy crisis beyond the ...

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

Western sanctions and difficulties with exports to Asia have triggered a serious crisis in Russia's coal industry. Source: Ilya Seredyuk, Governor of Kemerovo Oblast, at a parliamentary meeting; The ...

In the offices of Drexel & Co., Philadelphia associates of J. P. Morgan & Co., there is an upstairs room on the walls of which are large maps. When Drexel-Partner Thomas Newhall is talking about ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Uniper over the next five years aims to close three German hard coal-fired power plants, half its European coal-fired capacity, two people familiar with the plans told Reuters.

There’s no shortage of writers who were inspired by the mining lore of the coal regions. One of the most eloquent is Perry Stirling, who wrote a column called “The Coalbin” for many years. I recently ...

Ohio coal miner Robert E. Murray, 72, is still wearing oversize steel-toe boots and a shirt that reads BOB over his heart when he mispronounces President Obama’s name for the third time. Coming from ...

VOERDE, Germany -- About a half-mile under the Earth's surface here, dozens of soot-faced miners scrape coal from some of the richest seams in the world, just as their forebears had done for ...