World coal use is set to reach an all-time high in 2024, the International Energy Agency says, in a year all but certain to ...

A transformer explosion at Eskom’s coal-fired 3.6-GW Matla Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Dec. 12 injured nine ...

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another coal mining town, 18 miles north of her hometown of Pokrovsk. "It is too loud, the explosions, the drones. Too dangerous. We cannot stay." Dobropillya is hardly a safe haven. The city ...

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Nine mine workers died in a coal mine blast in Dowali area of lower Orakzai on Wednesday. According to Rescue 1122, the rescue operation has been completed and all the dead bodies have been recovered.

In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, can’t find enough people to fill the estimated 350 jobs needed to staff it.

A transformer explosion at Eskom’s coal-fired 3.6-GW ... given its proximity to Mpumalanga’s coal-mining region. Like most of Eskom’s 38-GW coal fleet, the station’s age exceeds 40 years ...