By Kasey, Pam Even as Arch Coal executives see coal prices and demand looking up, implications of a March federal court decision to rescind four West Virginia valley fill permits echoed through the company's first- quarter conference call.

German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel has cleared a new offshore wind farm project to be built off an island in the North Sea. The wind farm will consist of 12 offshore windmills and is to be built 45km off Borkum, an island in Northwest Germany's Leer District.