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Alliance Resource Partners faces stranded asset risk as coal phase-out accelerates across four-state footprint

Alliance Resource Partners faces stranded asset risk as coal phase-out accelerates across four-state footprint

Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., the Tulsa-based coal MLP, confronts medium-probability catastrophic risk from energy transition rendering its Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia mining complexes obsolete. The assessment carries 70% confidence as utilities accelerate coal plant retirements ahead of schedule. Stranded asset exposure threatens the partnership's debt service capacity and unitholder distributions.

ViaNews Editorial Team (Finance)