The Latest Breaking News from Coal

Australia has huge reserves of coal and gas – but very little oil. Before the 20th century, this didn’t matter – trains ran on local coal. But as cars and trucks have come to dominate, Australia has become more and more reliant on imported oil.

Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in their own Land, which explored the motivations and resentments of working-class conservatives in Louisiana, was named one of six books to help understand Donald Trump’s win by the New York Times when he was first elected president, in 2016. (Another was Hillbilly Elegy, by now…

New podcast series will show what coal-trimmers had to endure as they powered the ill-fated ship in 1912

Government staffing cuts have gutted a small U.S. health agency that aims to protect workers

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal industry

Stanley “Goose” Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, calls a recommendation by the Trump administration to close three dozen offices of the Mine Safety and Health Administration across the country “idiotic.”

Move ends bid for site near Whitehaven, Cumbria after planning permission was quashed by high court

The Government confirmed on Friday that West Cumbria Mining withdrew its application for the site near Whitehaven.

Australia’s 2022 federal election was seen as the climate election. But this time round, climate policy has so far taken a back seat as the major parties focus on cost-of-living issues.

Labour former minister Anneliese Dodds warned ‘there are many other canaries choking down the coal mine’.

Mark Cuban condemns federal budget cuts that are gutting mine safety oversight and black lung clinics, warning that coal mining communities are being abandoned to deadly conditions and economic collapse in the name of government efficiency.