Thursday, July 30, 2026

Coal Production Cuts Continue with Power Plant Retirements: S&P

From IEEFA Coal producers delivered 51.4 million tons of coal, 6.6% of the coal mined in the U.S. in 2017, to power plants scheduled to retire in the next 10 years as a secular decline in domestic demand continues to erode the size of the U.S. coal market. While U.S. producers have had some luck moving their product overseas in