In December 2022, planning permission was granted by the secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ("SoS") to extract coal from a coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. The ...

Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was unlawful, London’s High Court ruled on Friday following a legal challenge brought by environmental campaigners. Friends of the Earth ...

Contentious plans to open the UK's first new coal mine in decades appeared doomed Friday after it emerged the new Labour government will not defend the project's previous approval in court. The High ...

Sumitomo Electric Industries has signed an agreement to supply a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) to Boggabri Coal Mine via ...

Climate activists are set for a courtroom showdown with the government over a newly-approved coal mine in West Cumbria. The legal action follows Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove’s decision last ...

The Ukraine war sent shockwaves through global energy markets, driving up prices and leaving households across the UK struggling with soaring energy bills. But beneath the ground, in disused coal ...

As one type of geologic disaster, coal and gas outbursts seriously threaten safe production in coal mines, restricting the sustainable development of the mining industry. However, coal and gas ...

The same tunnels used to extract fossil fuels for centuries are now helping to heat British homes with clean energy from the Earth’s core. It’s called mine water heating and it has the potential to ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...