Sentences with phrase «u.s. coal output»

Three states alone — Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia — produce 52 % of the high - quality thermal and metallurgical coal in the U.S. Coal output in all three of these states has been flat or in decline for many years.

Peabody Energy follows rival U.S. coal giant Arch Coal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent years.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, coal production grew by 2 percent in 2012 despite a 7.5 percent reduction in output from U.S. mines.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

It is displacing coal, lowering U.S. output of pollution blamed for global warming.

In 2006, output from the Gillette region totaled over 431 million short tons of coal, or over 37 % of U.S. total yearly production.

And even if the U.S. continues to use coal at current levels of output — which is unlikely in the face of the looming political controls on carbon — the supply issue will almost surely come to a head in as few as 10 — 20 years.