Coal’s Four-Year Lows Hide a Coming Global Supply Squeeze

Coal Mining Down but Not Out as Federal Policy Dictates Industry

HELPER, Utah—Roman Vega Jr. had just graduated from high school when he first encountered the underground “long wall” at the coal mine where his father worked in Colorado. It was not a place for the timid or the claustrophobic, Vega recalls. The work was loud, dusty, and hazardous. “You could see how big it was and how deep underground you had to go to get to these places,” said Vega, who is from Helper, Utah. “You watched these [machine] blades…

Coal's Four-Year Lows Hide a Coming Global Supply Squeeze

(Bloomberg) — Languishing global prices today mask a very different future for the world’s most-consumed source of power.

Coal’s Four-Year Lows Hide a Coming Global Supply Squeeze

Languishing global prices today mask a very different future for the world’s most-consumed source of power.