Cleaner burning natural gas and renewable choices such as wind and solar power have, in recent years, displaced coal as a popular source of domestic energy. Coal fired generating plants have been going the way of the dodo bird in recent years, but an analysis of Department of Energy data by River Transport News shows that barged coal shipments improved during the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to the previous quarter and the previous year’s volumes.
Coal shipments moved by barge to domestic...