US coal production totaled nearly 13.1 million st in the week ended February 8, up slightly by 0.1% from the prior week, Energy Information Administration data showed Thursday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now From the year-ago week production fell 11.4%, slightly better than the prior week’s 15.5% drop from the corresponding 2018 period. At this rate, the annualized total for US production would be 714.4 million st, down 4.9% from 2018. Wyoming and Montana production, which is largely Powder River Basin coal, totaled almost 5.8 million st in the most recent week. While production in the two states rose 0.9% from the prior week, it dropped 14.7% from the year-ago week, experiencing the steepest drop year over year from all four basins. Annualized production for the two states was about 316 million st, down 7.1% from 2018 production of 340 […]