Peabody Energy Corp. named M. Frances Keeth, a former Royal Dutch Shell Plc executive vice president, as a new director, increasing the size of the board to 11.

Keeth was formerly CEO of Shell Chemicals Ltd. and would figure to play a…

St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. is among the companies said to be interested in buying part of a Mongolian coal deposit estimated to be worth $2 billion, Bloomberg News is reporting.

Bloomberg says Mongolia’s government may hire JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup to find a…

Oil and water don’t mix. Nor, apparently, do coal and natural gas - at least in one instance.

Bloomberg News reported yesterday afternoon that Colorado-based natural-gas producer Bill Barrett Corp. won a federal court order that temporarily bars Peabody Energy Corp. from exploring…

It’s been more than a year since Democratic New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed Peabody Energy Corp. for information on whether the company had adequately disclosed financial risks of global warming, and the two parties are still apparently locked in…

Peabody Energy Corp., the world’s largest private sector coal producer, is discovering that more is less when it comes to healthcare, according to this story from Bloomberg News.

The St. Louis-based company has joined Foundation Coal Holdings Inc. in combatting rising health care costs…