On 28 June this year, a freight train snaked into some railway sidings near Nottingham and unloaded the final scheduled consignment of coal ever to be burned in a British power station.

Plans for Britain’s first new coal mine in 30 years have been blocked by authorities, weeks after the Labour Government withdrew support for it over environmental concerns. Three licence ...

Between soaring smoke stacks and piles of deep black coal, a team in the control room at Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station checks the pulse of the electricity market every five ...

The closure of the UK's last coal-fired power station has been described by officials as a "tremendously important milestone" in energy production. Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in ...

“We need to really be moving forward also on deploying plants,” he said. Coal communities across the U.S. could provide a runway to build out a large number of new nuclear plants. Utilities in ...

The UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station is to shut at the end of September, drawing to a close Britain’s 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel to produce electricity. Ratcliffe-on-Soar ...

OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of ...

A coal-fired power plant is seen in Healy, Alaska, not far from Denali National Park and Preserve. (Cropped photo by Craig Talbert republished under Creative Commons license) Southcentral Alaska ...

Cutting emissions from coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, is seen as a crucial element of the JETPs if the world is to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. But a deal on the early shutdown ...

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At the end of September, the UK’s last remaining coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will be retired. The closure of the plant should – and will – be celebrated by ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo released on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, by Iranian Interior Ministry, miners sit at the site of a ...