Coal & Solid Fuel Industries

Like so many other lads in North Staffordshire, George Shufflebotham followed his father down the pit, so he knew what to expect when he rolled up ...

An illustrated history of Britains coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powe...

Focusing on the 1990s as a decade of change, all of the collieries and most of the coal fired power stations of that era have now gone. During that...

It is now a relatively small company developing a range of businesses based on the engineering and scientific skills it has built up over 75 years....

The Department of Defense (DOD) is the single largest consumer of energy in the federal government, spending billions of dollars annually on petrol...

Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledglin...

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age - and it still does. Coal today...

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age - and it still does. Coal today...

The region along Deep River in central North Carolina once boasted a small but significant coal mining industry that for nearly two centuries provi...

When the last deep coal mine in Britain closed in 2016 it marked the end of the most transformative era in the history of mankind. In writing this ...

Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Succ...