29Jun

How Strong is America’s Power Grid?

Via The Montgomery Advertiser: Americans have been exceptionally fortunate in recent decades to enjoy robust power generation to heat their homes, refrigerate their food, and deliver clean drinking water. Unlike many countries, the United States maintains affordable, non-stop, 24/7 electricity. It’s an impressive feat in a nation of 325 million that continues to add more […]
29Jun

NMA Applauds President’s Energy Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. mining industry applauded the administration’s bold emphasis on creating a robust market for all sources of domestic energy that the president highlighted in his energy speech today. “A strong energy industry is a goal that will benefit all Americans and is achievable without diminishing the significant environmental protections that Americans […]
28Jun

Green Fantasy Gets Bad Reviews

June 28, 2017 Just in time for Energy Week comes a new paper by 21 academicians, all from prestigious research institutions, that drives a stake in the heart of the prevailing renewable energy fantasy. The authors, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week, systematically demolish the claim made in the […]
28Jun

OPINION: Trump’s Energy Plan will Make America the New Saudi Arabia

Via The Hill: This past week, President Trump renewed his promise of an era of American global energy dominance. It’s an achievable goal and a quintessential “America first” theme that Trump should keep playing. Trump recognizes what almost all his critics choose to ignore: we are entering an age of American energy renaissance that will […]
28Jun

The Western US’s Largest Coal Plant Has A ‘Fighting Chance’ Of Survival

Via The Daily Caller: Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke hailed the Navajo Nation’s ratification of a new lease with operators of the largest coal-fired power plant in the western U.S., staving off its immediate decommissioning. Zinke said the action gave Navajo and Hopi workers a “fighting chance” to keep their jobs at the coal […]
23Jun

Trump has Returned Hope to Coal Industry, Communities

Via The Lexington Herald-Leader: For the Kentucky Coal Association, the election of President Donald Trump gave us hope. Instead of vilifying coal like President Barack Obama did, the Trump administration recognizes that coal is a reliable and affordable source of energy. Coal powers our homes and businesses, and the low energy costs it provides gives the […]
22Jun

Coal Jobs Rise, Media Blames Trump

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: Here’s one irony emerging from the tumultuous early months of the Trump administration. The president’s support for the coal industry, and his rollback of costly federal regulations, is gradually helping put coal communities back on their feet. But the president isn’t getting any credit for it. In fact, instead of recognizing […]
21Jun

Rick Perry to Issue Major Electric Grid Study by Month’s End

Via The Washington Examiner: Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday that he expects to release a major study on the reliability of the electric grid by the end of June. Perry told a House Appropriations Committee budget panel that the study will show the state of the nation’s “baseload” power plants, which typically include plants […]
20Jun

Coal’s Decline Spreads Far Beyond Appalachia

Via The Wall Street Journal: SOMERSET, Mass.—Far from the mines of Appalachia, the decline of coal is hitting communities that relied on coal-fired power plants for jobs and income. During the past five years, roughly 350 coal-fired generating units shut down across the U.S., ranging from small units at factories to huge power plants, according […]