Coal's share of the energy market has been declining too, due to tightening environmental regulations and competition from natural gas and renewables. In 2001, coal fueled more than half of ...

The president signed four executive orders to reverse the trend away from coal-fired electricity in the U.S., but there's little economic incentive for utilities to bring it back when natural gas ...

At a White House event on April 8, with dozens of coal industry workers in uniforms and hard hats standing behind him, Trump spoke of a coal renaissance. "We're bringing back an industry that was ...