Sentences with phrase «coal output»

And even if coal output increased, that might not lead to more jobs, thanks to increases in automation.

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.

Subbituminous coal is the predominant rank of coal produced west of the Mississippi River, accounting for 62 percent of the region's total coal output in 1992.

In 2015, China's coal output fell 3.5 percent, coal imports plummeted 30 percent and coal - fired electricity generation decreased 2.8 percent.

The problem now for the right in the UK is that to expand coal output would be interpreted as an admission that Saint Margaret Thatcher got it wrong because she attached higher importance to class war than national economic wellbeing.

China's natural gas production surged to a record last month and coal output rebounded as economic growth accelerated power use in the world's largest energy user.

Indeed, among the details of the Greenpeace report are that Chinese coal output was down 7 % in April compared to just a year earlier.

About 16 percent of the 1992 coal output west of the Mississippi was bituminous coal, with production chiefly from Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.

Coal output last year fell 2.5 % to 3.87 billion metric tons compared with a year before, while coal consumption fell 2.9 % in the period, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

The National Development and Reform Commission said in a work report it will lower coal output by 150 million tons and steel capacity by around 30 million tons.

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.

The government expects Xinjiang's coal output will increase from approximately 100 million tonnes in 2010 to more than 1 billion tonnes.

Industry consolidation will be encouraged so that there will eventually be «two or three mining giants producing more than 100 million tons of coal per year and three to five companies that will produce more than 50 million tons per year, so that 75 percent of the coal output is churned out by major groups.»

China's total coal production capacity including under mines construction is estimated at more than 5 billion tons while its coal output for next year will probably reach 3.7 billion tons, leaving more than 20 percent of its capacity idle, according to David Fang, a director with China Coal Transport and Distribution Association in Beijing.

This is largely due to the closure of more than 1,000 coal mines; coal output is down 7.4 % year on year.

Only 53 large U.S. coal mines account for about 60 % of total U.S. coal output.