Coal in the News

15Jun

House Lawmakers Clash Over Coal Royalties

Via Environment & Energy Daily: House lawmakers are split along partisan lines on legislation that would allow state and tribal leaders a greater say in federal land decisions in the wake of the Obama administration’s controversial moratorium on new federal coal leases. The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources met yesterday to […]
15Jun

Zinke Pushes to End Coal Lease Suspension, Empower Communities

 Via The Billings Gazette:  State and tribal governments deserve a bigger say in federal coal policies, U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke said Tuesday, while seeking to overturn a temporary federal ban on coal leases. Montana’s lone Congressman, told the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources that the federal decision suspending coal leasing earlier […]
14Jun

“Keep it in the Ground” Energy Policies Threaten America’s Prosperity

Washington, D.C. — The National Mining Association (NMA) this week highlighted the mounting evidence that unbalanced energy plans designed to limit America’s energy diversity are threatening the U.S. economy, communities, and access to reliable and affordable energy. On June 14, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources hears testimony from those most impacted […]
14Jun

Obama Legacy Will Be Power Blackouts

Via Newsmax: President Obama is burning his so-called bridges to a “green energy” future that will leave America’s families and industries powerlessly impoverished. Any notions that generously subsidized solar and wind will significantly compensate capacity losses from shuttered coal plants and overregulated oil and natural gas suppliers are scientifically and economically delusional. And as for […]
13Jun

A Cautionary Tale on Coal

Via TribeLive: I was happy to read that at least two state attorneys general are pushing against the political persecution of ExxonMobil by climate activists, who want to use lawsuits, the threat of expensive litigation and possibly jail time to silence critics of global warming alarmism ( “Chilling heat: Two AGs counter brethren’s climate claims” […]
13Jun

EPA Accused of ‘Scare Tactic’ on Clean Power Plan Stay

Via Bloomberg BNA:  Suggestions that the Environmental Protection Agency might not extend the deadlines in its Clean Power Plan, should the rule ultimately be upheld following a lengthy judicial stay, are a “scare tactic” to force states to continue their preparations, opponents of the rule testified June 9. The EPA’s insistence on moving forward with […]
11Jun

Showers But With a Chance of Sun

Via World Coal:  The current state of the US coal industry is a microcosm of a global market for coal still ailing from unfavourable macroeconomic trends. This year will extend a difficult period of capacity adjustments that US producers are making to align production with more modest demand scenarios. US coal production, last year, was […]
10Jun

EPA’s Clean Power Plan Could Cost Alabama Seniors

Via AL.com: For years, the most radical environmental groups have promoted a keep it in the ground ideology. This thinking, which aims to keep all fossil fuels literally in the ground seemed so far out there, so obviously incompatible with our energy needs and standard of living, it was just laughed off. But this fringe […]
10Jun

GOP, Some States Press EPA for Answers on Implementation Plans

Senators yesterday took up the question of whether U.S. EPA can work on guidelines related to the Clean Power Plan while the program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants is frozen by the Supreme Court. In the last few months, EPA has continued to work on an incentive program to credit states for […]