Coal

DHANBAD, India (Reuters) - Seven shots rang out at a wedding reception in this sooty city in eastern India, and Suresh Singh, India's "Coal King", fell fatally wounded. He was a wealthy coal trader, a politician and, police say, a crime boss. At the time...

May 13 (Reuters) - U.S. power company AES Corp said its units expect to retire or repower several coal-fired units in Indiana and Ohio, and possibly build a natural gas plant over the next several years. AES is not alone in shutting coal plants in the...

May 13 (Reuters) - The Guardian PARTS OF UK COAL MAY BE NATIONALISED AFTER COLLIERY FIRE CLOSES PIT Troubled parts of UK Coal, Britain's largest coal mining business, could return to public ownership under plans being discussed by ministers that would...

(Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.) By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, May 13 (Reuters) - India's record coal imports in the past fiscal year, and the virtual certainty they will rise again this year,...

(Reuters) - As mineworkers and retirees battle to salvage their pensions and benefits from the bankruptcy of Patriot Coal Corp, lawyers for their union are trying an unusual gambit - and one that may be a test case for workers' rights when companies...

--Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.-- By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, May 1 (Reuters) - India may import an additional 30 million tonnes of coal in the current fiscal year, and the good news for...

SEATTLE — The battle over plans for a series of massive coal export terminals across the Pacific Northwest took a new turn Wednesday when the energy company Kinder Morgan announced it was dropping its plan to build a $200-million facility on the...

OBIT-STARKER Grammy-winning cellist Janos Starker dead at 88 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker has died after months of declining health. He was 88. Alain Barker, a spokesman for the Jacobs School of Music at...

(.) By Annie Banerji and Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI, May 8 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court accused the government on Wednesday of interfering in a police investigation into the allocation of commercial coalfields, in a damning indictment of political...

(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own) By John Kemp LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) - Water and energy are inextricably linked. Power plants are the largest users of water in the United States, while substantial amounts...

ULAN BATOR, May 7 (Reuters) - Mongolia's plan to develop the untapped western block of its massive Tavan Tolgoi coal mine will help raise cash from new customers to offset an exclusive but loss-making supply deal with China's Chalco, an official with...

By Fayen Wong SHANGHAI, May 6 (Reuters) - Chinese coal miners are likely to cut output more to curb losses after a flood of cheap imports and higher hydro power output hit domestic demand in the world's top producer and consumer of the fuel, miners and...