US News and World Report: Since 2000, China has accounted for more than 80 percent of the global increase in coal use, according to the EIA.
China alone uses almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined, a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration noted Tuesday, and will likely dominate the coal market in 2013 thanks to the nation's increasingly ravenous demand for energy.
That bodes well for America's coal industry, experts say, which has languished in recent years as environmental regulations...