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Don’t Overlook Coal’s Continued Importance

Via RealClearEnergy: Contrary to popular opinion, coal is still critically important to meeting our nation’s energy needs. Coal is America’s number one source of electricity, accounting for 32 percent of electricity production, and it generates more than half of the power in states with heavy industries like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Colorado and Utah. Coal is also […]

Trump is Taking the Right Steps to Ensure our Energy Future

Via Penn Live: America’s energy sector has reached an interesting crossroads. After eight years of the Obama Administration working to dismantle the nation’s coal fleet, the Trump Administration has swept into office and upended the apple cart. Earlier this year, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned a study to assess the health of America’s power […]

Perry’s Angry Critics

October 25, 2017 It was the 17th century English playwright William Congreve who claimed “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Congreve never met the renewable fuels industry. Wind and solar proponents, feeling scorned by Energy Secretary Perry, reacted with righteous anger to his request that the Federal Energy Regulatory Corporation (FERC) allow utilities […]

EPA Rides to the Rescue of Sustained Electricity in Florida

Via The Orlando Sentinel:  Floridians, like all Americans, are accustomed to powering their lives with electricity that is abundantly available, reliable and affordable. The impact of recent hurricanes has reminded us how much our lives revolve around that all-important supply of power. Life without electricity means no air conditioning, no cellphones, no computers and no […]

Coal Industry Tells FERC the Last 7 Years Was a Catastrophe it Must Now Fix

Via The Washington Examiner: The coal industry claims the last seven years was a catastrophe federal grid regulators under the Trump administration are now bound by the law to fix by supporting Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s grid plan. “In the last seven years, 101,000 megawatts of coal-fired generating capacity has retired or has announced plans […]

Why Coal and Nuclear Aren’t Going Anywhere

Via The Washington Examiner: Americans have a strong pragmatic streak. And they undoubtedly took notice recently when two devastating hurricanes knocked out power in much of the Southern United States. News channels focused on the harsh conditions that followed after families were left without power for days on end. It’s understandable, then, that a subsequent […]

Commentary: America’s Electrical Power System is Under Stress

Via The Salt Lake Tribune: Serious stresses are building within the U.S. electrical power industry. The further loss of nuclear and coal generating capacity that may occur in the near future depends on whether the federal government and regional electric grids recognize and correct chronic defects in the electricity market. These issues have now resulted […]

Baseload Power the Right Focus

Via The Columbus Dispatch America’s energy sector has reached an interesting crossroads. After eight years of the Obama Administration working to dismantle the nation’s coal fleet, the Trump Administration has swept into office and upended the apple cart. Earlier this year, Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned a study to assess the health of America’s power […]

Trump Administration Right to Focus on Baseload Power

Via The Troy Daily News: America’s energy sector has reached an interesting crossroads. After eight years of the Obama Administration working to dismantle the nation’s coal fleet, the Trump Administration has swept into office and upended the apple cart. Earlier this year, Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned a study to assess the health of America’s […]

EPA Chief Pruitt: Obama ‘Increased Burden’ on Coal Mining Industry

Via Fox Business: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt lashed out at the Obama administration on Tuesday for waging a war on the coal mining industry and defended the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. “I think the better discussion is not to put artificial targets, like we did in the Paris […]