Federal Coal Lease Sale Exposes Weak Market Interest

October 9, 2025--Written by Jesse Broehl for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The biggest U.S. coal mining lease sale in more than a decade has exposed a major erosion in market interest for coal, despite support the Trump administration is trying to provide on many fronts to the coal-mining and coal-fired power industries. Companies featured: Peabody Energy (St. Louis, Missouri), Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) (Farmington, New Mexico)