13Apr

What Trump Can Do for Coal

April 13, 2017 By now we know his reputation. Shoots from the lip, dismisses facts as inconvenient truths, creates his own truth from his unassailable position as billionaire newsmaker. Yup, that’s Michael Bloomberg. With a recent editorial in The New York Times and new speechifying to green groups, the Sierra Club financier who once scolded […]
13Apr

NMA Hails Pruitt’s Support for Coal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Mining Association (NMA) president and CEO Hal Quinn issued the following statement regarding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s visit today at the Harvey Mine and training complex in Pennsylvania: “It’s encouraging to hear a senior government official recognize the contribution that America’s coal resources, the world’s largest, make to our nation’s economy […]
05Apr

Crushed by Coal’s Survival

April 5, 2017 “This day may be remembered as a low point in human history …” — David Arkush, head climate programs for Public Citizen. That day? Last Tuesday. The “end of days” event?  President Trump signing an executive order blunting the regulatory assault on U.S. coal. Bad enough the president prefers his steak well done, […]
04Apr

Big Coal Starts Hiring, Opening Plants, ‘Through the Roof’

Via The Washington Examiner: West Virginia coal industry executive Mike Grose knows fake news when he sees it. And the headlines claiming that President Trump’s new executive order to dismantle clean power rules won’t revive mining employment were Exhibit A. “It’s growing, a lot better than it ever was,” said Grose, owner of Superior and […]
04Apr

Coal Should Be Part Of Energy Mix Given National Clean Power Plan Rollback

Via WIBW News: A pro-coal attorney and former member of the Missouri Public Service Commission sees the rollback of the Clean Power Plan by President Donald Trump as a positive. “Coal plants that were slated to close within the next three to four years will remain open,” said Terry Jarrett. “Coal will now be able […]
03Apr

The Climate Yawns

Via The Wall Street Journal: The oddest criticism of Donald Trump’s climate action this week was the claim, mentioned almost triumphantly by every news source, that it would save few coal jobs. The economic and technological forces, especially the flood of low-carbon natural gas from fracking, are just too powerful. Then why, if you’re a […]
03Apr

Trump’s Rollback of Coal Rules Electrifies Wyoming Workers

Via The Observer-Reporter: This hardscrabble Wyoming city of about 30,000 people proclaims itself the “Energy Capital of the Nation” on the mayor’s blue blazer and even the parking ticket payment boxes. Nearby are some of the world’s largest open-pit mines, where dump trucks the size of houses haul out more than 40 percent of the […]
31Mar

How President Trump Avoided a Catastrophe in the Coalfields.

Via The Williamson Daily News:  Many Americans have already forgotten about the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the Obama administration’s signature effort to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants. But not the nation’s coal communities. They’ve lived with this regulation as an ever-present threat even after its implementation was stayed by a federal court. […]
31Mar

Trump Isn’t Saving the Coal Industry. He’s Letting it Compete.

Via The Hill: President Trump this week signed the American Energy Independence Executive Order, an action being used by allies and critics alike to rally their bases, particularly when it comes to the re-examination of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. But while one side predicts environmental Armageddon, and the other cheers for an industry’s […]
31Mar

U.S. Can Have a Viable Coal Industry

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: Yes, President Donald Trump throws a lot of punches via his ever-present Twitter account. But he’s landed some good jabs lately against critics of America’s coal industry. And while some argue the president is raising expectations too high, no one really expects him to return coal to its glory days, at […]