Some countries are well into phasing it out, but US President Donald Trump wants to boost production. Why this is not a good ...

It is often called “Black Gold”. Types of Coal ... value for smelting iron in blast furnaces. • Lignite is a low grade brown coal, which is soft with high moisture content.

With winter around the corner and Europe giving priority to energy security over clean energy in German a wind farm is being dismantled to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine.