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Senate Energy Package Recognizes American Mining is Essential to All Aspects of American Energy

The National Mining Association (NMA) applauded the Senate’s “American Energy Innovation Act,” introduced today, which includes important steps to address the nation’s alarming mineral import reliance and to increase the nation’s development and deployment of essential carbon capture technologies. “Mining has never been more important to all of our energy needs,” said Rich Nolan, NMA […]

Opinion: America’s Economy Demands Full-time Electricity

Via The Centre Daily Times: Thanks to the production of baseload electricity from a diverse mix of power plants, households are benefiting from cheap and reliable electrical energy. This is especially true in states with coal and nuclear plants, where an abundance of dispatchable power means assured electricity for businesses and better prices for the […]

NMA Applauds Interior Decision to Resume Coal Leasing

The National Mining Association (NMA) today issued the following statement from Rich Nolan, NMA President & CEO, applauding the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for concluding its final environmental assessment and finding no significant impact that would impede processing applications for new coal leases on federal land. “Efforts under the Obama […]

Ensuring a Future for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund

This week, a House subcommittee is holding a hearing on the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. The hearing, titled, “Asleep at the Switch: How the Department of Labor Failed to Oversee the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund,” is certain to include a lot of finger pointing. It could also prove productive if the right questions […]

The Case for U.S. Leadership on Advanced Coal Technology

Via The Morning Journal: While it can feel like the world is in the midst of an energy transition — where one source of energy is replaced by another — that’s not what’s happening. Instead of transition, we’re in a period of addition. The growing use of wind and solar power is actually coming on […]

Guidance to Get Going

It’s not every day when a notice from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is cause for excitement. Yesterday was one of those rare exceptions. The IRS finally issued guidance on the 45Q carbon capture tax credits. It was guidance the energy industry has been anticipating for two years, ever since Congress passed bipartisan legislation creating […]

America Blessed with an Extraordinary Opportunity

Via Fosters.com: If you had to capture the remarkable changes in U.S. energy production in one word, that word would be “technology.” From technological advances driving the shale revolution in oil and natural gas to dramatic declines in the cost of solar and wind power to the design of advanced reactors for nuclear power to […]

Coal Still Has a Promising Future

Via The Casper Star-Tribune: Public concern over global warming has cast much-needed attention on efforts to curtail carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. As the most carbon-rich fuel, coal is right between the crosshairs. But substantial global warming won’t be avoided unless coal-rich countries – especially China and India – reduce greenhouse-gas […]

The Case for U.S. Leadership on Advanced Coal Technology

Via The Casper Star Tribune: While it can feel like the world is in the midst of an energy transition — where one source of energy is replaced by another — that’s not what’s happening. Instead of transition, we’re in a period of addition. The growing use of wind and solar power is actually coming […]

Markets Must Better Value Flexible, Dispatchable Coal Power

How valuable is a kilowatt hour of electricity? That, of course, depends greatly on when that electricity is produced and just how much it’s needed. Consider the gulf in value of excess electricity generated by solar power midday and the electricity produced by a coal plant when demand is spiking and intermittent sources of power […]