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Coal

  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    Global trade
    US coal producers squeezed as Iran crisis lifts demand and costs

    Soaring expense of production and transport hampers effort to boost exports

    Aerial view of a coal preparation plant surrounded by coal piles, machinery, and leafless trees in a hilly landscape.
  • Tuesday, 31 March, 2026
    Oil
    Asia turns to coal as Iran war chokes off gas supplies

    Countries shrug off environmental concerns to fire up use of polluting fuel as Gulf supplies dwindle

    Workers carry large baskets of coal on their heads while unloading it from a ship at a riverbank in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Saturday, 7 March, 2026
    Energy sector
    Lex. Amid European energy fears, coal creeps back into favour

    A protracted conflict in the Middle East would dent expectations that global coal consumption will start to fall

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    A tugboat pulls a barge loaded with coal past the large domed Islamic Centre mosque in Samarinda, Indonesia.
  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    Climate change
    China sets cautious climate goals in five-year plan as coal remains core

    ‘Underwhelming’ target leaves room for increase in energy and industry emissions in years to 2030, experts say

  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    Energy sector
    Coal prices jump as utilities seek alternative to gas

    Energy crisis sparked by war in Iran has raised prospect of restarting mothballed coal power plants

    Two cyclists stand beside their bikes, looking toward large cooling towers emitting steam at the Jaenschwalde coal-fired power plant.
  • Sunday, 22 February, 2026
    Climate change
    America is becoming a petrostate

    The Trump administration’s energy policy will make the country sicker and poorer

    Rana Foroohar
    An illustration showing four smokestacks emitting dark smoke with stars, set against a U.S. flag motif, and two small human figures near the stacks.
  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    Climate change
    US allows coal plants to emit more toxic mercury into the air

    Environmental Protection Agency rollback of standards marks latest move to boost fossil fuels

    Homes in Poca, West Virginia, with the John E Amos coal-fired power plant’s cooling towers and smokestacks emitting steam in the background.
  • Wednesday, 11 February, 2026
    US politics & policy
    Trump orders US defence department to buy coal-generated electricity

    Executive order also allocates $175mn to upgrade coal power plants in five states

    US President Donald Trump speaks at a podium during the Champion of Coal Event, with a coal miner statue award and audience members in hard hats visible.
  • Thursday, 29 January, 2026
    FT Film
    India and the true cost of coal | FT Film

    Coal fires India’s economy but pollution cuts lives short

  • Thursday, 29 January, 2026
    FT Film21 min
    India, where coal is king | FT Film

    Coal fires India’s economy but pollution cuts lives short

    Can India quit coal?
  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    Environment
    China pushes coal-fired power projects alongside renewables

    Vast majority of 104 electricity-generating units set to start operation worldwide this year are in China

    Cooling towers and a smokestack emit steam and smoke at Wujing Power Station, with a bridge and surveillance camera in the foreground.
  • Wednesday, 31 December, 2025
    Politics
    Can Donald Trump save American coal?

    US president has hailed the fossil fuel as ‘indestructible’ but weak investor demand plagues the sector

    Left: A person in a safety vest stands next to a large Caterpillar 797F mining truck at a Peabody mine site. Right: A red hat with white text reading "MAKE THE PRB GREAT AGAIN" rests on a stone sign.
  • Wednesday, 17 December, 2025
    Moral Money
    Is the ‘energy transition’ a real thing?

    Fossil fuel demand has kept growing amid the rise of low-carbon technology

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    A coal miner wearing a helmet and work clothes walks along a tunnel deep underground at the CSM coal mine in Stonava, surrounded by mining equipment and machinery.
  • Wednesday, 17 December, 2025
    Environment
    Coal demand reaches new annual record as US output rises

    IEA forecasts a decline in years to 2030 despite ‘many uncertainties’

    A large orange excavator operating among piles of coal, some covered with green and blue tarps, at the Guoyuan Port Container Terminal.
  • Thursday, 27 November, 2025
    Reinvention Champions 2025
    Coal stalwart follows old customers into low-carbon technologies

    Hargreaves Services diversified, devolved decision-making and reoriented towards environmental services and infrastructure

    Three people in orange Hargreaves Services safety jackets and helmets face a large cargo ship at a port, one pointing toward the vessel.
  • Monday, 13 October, 2025
    Energy sector
    Russia’s coal miners buckle under sanctions, weak prices and war

    Sector’s worst crisis in 30 years underscores how some industries risk lasting damage from Ukraine invasion

    A miner wearing a headlamp and covered in coal dust shovels coal underground at the Komsomolets of Donbas coal mine.
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    Anglo American PLC
    Anglo American planning to restart sale of coal mines early next year

    CEO Duncan Wanblad tells FT conference that process to sell De Beers to take place over next six months

    Two workers in orange safety vests and helmets stand on a mining site near a large dragline excavator moving earth.
  • Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
    Anglo American PLC
    Peabody pulls out of $3.8bn Anglo American coal deal

    Withdrawal triggered by ongoing closure of major mine in Australia deals blow to Anglo’s restructuring drive

    An Anglo American logo on a jacket
  • Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
    BHP Group Ltd
    BHP posts lowest profit since start of pandemic

    Miner’s poor performance driven by falling iron ore and coal prices

    A worker in safety gear stands inside BHP's Escondida copper cathodes plant, overseeing large metal sheets in processing tanks
  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
    UK labour disputes
    What I witnessed at the battle of Orgreave

    An inquiry into the pivotal confrontation of the 1984-85 miners’ strike should not sanitise history

    John Gapper
    Miners and police at Orgreave in 1984
  • Wednesday, 6 August, 2025
    Glencore
    Glencore to stay in London after shelving plans for New York listing

    Swiss miner confirms $1bn cost-cutting programme to boost profitability and share price

    A Glencore worker is dwarfed by the tyre of a large mining vehicle in the DR Congo
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    Energy Source
    Insurers regain appetite for coal despite climate pledges

    Chubb is the lead reinsurer of an entirely coal-fuelled plant in Vietnam, after pulling back from the fossil fuel

    Premium content
    Smoke rises from the chimneys at a coal power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia
  • Tuesday, 15 July, 2025
    Renewable energy
    India reaches clean power capacity target despite coal reliance

    Government says goal for 50% of non-fossil fuel capability has been met five years ahead of pledge

    A construction labourer carries a basket of gravel on her head near a building site, while in the background, solar panels are installed on the rooftop of a house in Gurugram, India
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders
    Campaigners call for ‘spirit’ of ambition in China climate targets

    The biggest emitter of greenhouse gases — and leader in renewable energy — is preparing its 2035 goals

    Steam billows out of cooling towers at a coal-fired power plant
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders
    US withdrawal leaves energy transition funding gap in south-east Asia

    President Trump’s pullout from financing partnership is prompting a rethink

    An excavator loading coal on to a dump truck at an open-pit mining site
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