21Mar

Trump Preparing New Executive Actions for Coal Mining

Via The Toldeo Blade: President Donald Trump said today he was preparing new executive actions to save coal mining and put miners back to work. “As we speak we are preparing new executive actions to save our coal industry and to save our wonderful coal miners from continuing to be put out of work. The […]
20Mar

Week Ahead: Anticipation Builds for Trump Climate Order

Via The Hill: The coming week could finally bring President Trump’s long-awaited executive order on climate change. The White House has promised an executive order undoing large swaths of President Obama’s work on climate change. On Friday, Politico reported Trump could sign such an order on Monday. An administration official declined to comment on the […]
20Mar

‘I’m Thankful I’ve Got a Job Again’: The Trump Presidency Has Allowed Coal Miners In This Town To Go Back To Work

Via Townhall: For the countless communities that dot rural America, Donald Trump is something of an economic savior. For small towns where coal is the economic driving force, the Obama presidency has been devastating. Mines closed, workers laid off, and economic downturn were becoming commonplace. Then, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in one of the biggest upsets […]
17Mar

Cutting the EPA’s Budget Could Save American Consumers and Businesses Hundred of Billions of Dollars

Via Brietbart: While President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts just $2.6 billion from the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, the benefits for the American economy will likely be much larger. The biggest economic benefits from Trump’s EPA budget would come from the complete elimination of funding for implementing the “Clean Power Plan,” the Obama […]
16Mar

CPP’s Last Stand

March 16, 2017: The Obama Administration’s so called war on coal, a campaign that appeared destined for victory just a few months ago looks to be in full retreat. An executive order, expected soon, will start a re-examination of costly and potentially unlawful policy impediments to energy independence. Prominent among these will be two, both […]
15Mar

Waiting Game Continues for Clean Power Plan Order

Via E&E Publishing: The wait is on for President Trump’s expected move to begin dismantling a major Obama-era climate rule. Trump was expected to sign off today on an order directing U.S. EPA to repeal the so-called Clean Power Plan rule to slash power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions, but the order appears to have been […]
14Mar

Trump is Poised to Issue a Sweeping Order Dismantling Obama’s Climate Plan this Week

Via The Washington Post: President Trump could issue a sweeping executive order within days aimed at reversing his predecessor’s climate policies, a measure that energy industry officials and environmentalists have been anticipating for weeks. The directive will instruct members of the Cabinet to rewrite regulation restricting carbon emissions from both new and existing power plants, lift […]
13Mar

Coal Industry Urges Trump to Protect Fossil Fuel Research

Via The Hill: A group of coal-mining firms, labor unions and energy-industry associations is asking the Trump administration to spare a critical research office from budget cuts this year. In a letter to President Trump released on Monday, the groups said the White House should protect the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy from […]
09Mar

Lift the Moratorium on Federal Coal

March 9, 2017 Coal is declining as a source of power, say critics, because cheap and abundant natural gas is keeping coal in the ground and away from power plants. Today, coal generates a third of the nation’s electricity, a steep drop from its 50 percent market share when President Obama took office. Coincidence? We […]
09Mar

The Clean Power Plan is Gone — and There’s No ‘Replace’

Via E&E Publishing: The White House intends to unravel the Clean Power Plan without providing a replacement, according to a source briefed on the issue. An executive order expected to be released next week also instructs the Justice Department to effectively withdraw its legal defense of the climate rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals […]