SME Conference: Coal Has a Brighter Future -- Maybe

March 4, 2025--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The outlook for U.S. coal mining, both thermal and metallurgical (met), has brightened in recent months, coal company officials and those who provide professional services to the industry, told a mining conference last week in Denver, Colorado.That optimism had several drivers, including the election of Donald Trump as president last November; rising demand in Asia for both thermal and met coal; investors' inc