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Job One for the Returning Congress

September 8, 2016 The jobs report released Friday ended any glib White House talk about its Labor Day achievements. From the 275,000 jobs added in July, we added a dismal 151,000 in August. AEI calls the impact on working men a “quiet catastrophe” – “quiet” because few in Washington’s punditry are talking about. “Catastrophe” because […]

Banks: Stop the Assault on Coal

Via The Roanoke Times: Ironically, as reported by the Washington Examiner newspaper, “the Democratic National Convention likely will receive much of its electricity from coal.” Coal-fired power keeps the lights on while the politicians continue their war on the miners and the industry that employs them. The U.S. coal industry is reeling. Worse, the people […]

Point of View: Low-income Americans Pay Heavy Price for Energy Policies

Via NewsOK: The clean energy mantra is so loud that it often drowns out the feeble cry of energy poverty. Many Americans are finding it more and more difficult to pay their utility bills, yet this important issue is nearly absent from the debate about America’s energy future. Modern progressives, who have long fancied themselves […]

Obama Kept His Promise, 83,000 Coal Jobs Lost And 400 Mines Shuttered

Via The Daily Caller: This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry. A 2015 study found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs from 2008 to 2012 during Obama’s first term. During Obama’s […]

EPA, Enviros Shut Down Two Colorado Coal Plants And Put More Out Of Work

Via The Daily Caller: Two Colorado coal plants and one mine will be shut down as part of an effort by federal and state regulators and environmentalists to improve visibility at national parks and other areas of the state. Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a rural cooperative utility, will shutter its 100 megawatt Nucla Station […]

Let’s Use More Coal, Open More Coal-fired Power Plants

Via The Livingston Daily: Our current administrations agenda to protect the environment is superseding the needs of the people. We have been burdened with overzealous regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency and this has forced many of our coal fired power plants to be shut down and ruined the majority of the industry. We have […]

The ‘War On Coal’ Unexpectedly Hits A Washington Town Struggling To Get By

Via The Daily Caller:  LONGVIEW, Wash. — In the morning, the industrial site nestled along the Columbia River is eerily quiet. Lori Black is one of the first employees to arrive most days. She knows the site well, has worked there for 12 years. Five years ago, Millennium Bulk Terminals acquired the 540-acre site. Officials […]

Congress Should Bar Stream Rule

Via The Wheeling News-Register: When Barack Obama became president, more than half the electricity generated in the United States came from coal-fired power plants. Coal was the most economical means of providing electricity. Now, electricity from gas costs about the same as that from coal. Only about 40 percent of the nation’s power comes from […]

Why a Smart Energy Policy Can Include Coal

Via Power Engineering International:  A pulverized coal plant in the US is an example of how combining the right operational model with best-in-class technologies can produce affordable, reliable and secure power with the lowest possible environmental impact, write Robert Giglio and Steve Nelson Longview Power’s 770 MWe coal power plant in West Virginia Credit: Longview […]

How to Make the Next Labor Day Better than this One

August 31, 2016 Like Christmas with no gifts, this is Labor Day with no good jobs – at least not for the near record number of jobless Americans who want them. Average hourly wages have barely budged since the recession ended four years ago. So this week count on the administration to airbrush its record […]