06Dec

Miner’s Day Becomes Miner’s Year

December 6, 2017 Seventeen years ago, Congress set Dec. 6 as National Miner’s Day, little knowing the renewed significance this date would have in 2017. A day that was born in recognition of a tragedy – the loss of 362 men in a coal mine accident in West Virginia in 1907 — has today become […]
05Dec

U.S. Still Needs Electricity from Coal and Nuclear Plants

Via The Philadelphia Inquirer:  The boom in natural gas production from shale has led to a widespread belief that the United States no longer needs nuclear and coal plants to meet the demand for electricity. That belief is wrong.  For starters, consider the continued increase in the nation’s need for electricity, which the Energy Information […]
01Dec

The EPA Comes to West Virginia – to Listen

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: It’s taken a while — several years in fact — but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finally come to West Virginia to hear testimony about the Clean Power Plan. There was plenty of pent-up demand to be heard. As many as 200 people testified Tuesday and Wednesday at the state […]
30Nov

Science Dies in the Dark

November 30, 2017 During the last administration, serving in the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy was akin to tending bar during Prohibition.  There was often demand for a stiff drink, but teetotalers made sure that “alcoholic beverages” weren’t on offer. So it was with the fossil energy office at a time when coal […]
29Nov

Officials Voice Support of Repealing Clean Power Plan in West Virginia Coal Association Rally

Via The Register-Herald: Some state officials and industry supporters spoke in favor of repealing the Clean Power Plan at a Tuesday rally outside the Capitol where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is conducting it two-day public comment hearings on the proposed repeal. The West Virginia Coal Association hosted the rally with speakers, including Senate President […]
28Nov

Coal Country Pressures EPA to Repeal Clean Power Plan ‘In Its Entirety’ During Hearing

Via The Washington Examiner: Coal country ripped into former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan in Charleston, W.Va., on Tuesday, during the only hearing the Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled on its plans to repeal the restrictions on power plant emissions. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey kicked off the first of two days of […]
28Nov

U.S. EPA Takes Repeal of Clean Power Plan to Coal Country

Via Reuters: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency heard testimony from coal miners, lobbyists, environmentalists and others on Tuesday at a public meeting in West Virginia on the agency’s proposal to dismantle an Obama-era plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants The two-day hearing in Charleston on the proposal to axe the Clean Power Plan […]
28Nov

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito: Trump EPA Bringing Positive Change

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: This Tuesday and Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency is holding a listening session in Charleston on its proposal to withdraw from the Obama administration’s so-called Clean Power Plan. The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from this plan, and the decision to hear directly from West Virginians, demonstrate a positive change from the job-killing […]
28Nov

U.S. EPA to Host Public Hearing on Proposed Clean Power Plan Repeal Today

Via The Register-Herald: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host a public hearing today and Wednesday in Charleston on the proposed Clean Power Plan repeal. The public hearing will take place at the Capitol Complex from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. According to The Associated Press, this is the only hearing scheduled by […]
27Nov

Hal Quinn, Bill Raney: EPA is Coming to WV, this Time to Listen

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: The Environmental Protection Agency is finally coming to West Virginia. On Tuesday, the agency will perform a valuable public service in Charleston by hosting a two-day public hearing on its proposal to repeal the controversial Clean Power Plan. We have always referred to this regulation as the “Costly Power Plan,” because […]