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Coal Is Number One

Via The Spectator: Quick: what was the number one source of electricity production in the U.S. during the first half of 2017? If you answered renewable energy, you are wrong by a mile. If you answered natural gas, you were wrong by a tiny amount. According to the Energy Information Administration, which tracks energy use […]

U.S. Coal Exports Soar, in Boost to Trump Energy Agenda, Data Show

Via The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: U.S. coal exports have jumped more than 60 percent this year due to soaring demand from Europe and Asia, according to a Reuters review of government data, allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to claim that efforts to revive the battered industry are working. The increased shipments came as the European […]

Coal’s Benefits: Seen Only When Gone

July 26, 2017 The front-page story in Sunday’s Washington Post was a despairing look at the human cost of “the collapse of the coal industry.”  “Disabled and Disdained” is an example of a growing interest by both broadcast and print media in the social destruction left in the wake of a vanishing industry and the […]

Reliable, Affordable Electricity Is Vital to America

Via The Morning Consult: Remember the last time you lost power at home. Even if you went without electricity for only for a few minutes, it was an inconvenience, right? Now, imagine it is the coldest stretch in years. What happens if the electricity goes out for days at a time during this brutal cold? […]

Good News: Workers Being Called Back

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: In another sign of life for the coal industry, Komatsu Mining Corp. (formerly Joy Global) has called back 65 workers and will hire 15 more due to a “uptick in work in the mining industry.” The workers were called back on the job last week. The new workers that will be hired […]

Let’s Take the Lead in Clean Coal

Via The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord has drawn criticism, but if there’s a silver lining, it may be that his renewed focus on coal could spur technological advances leading to both a cleaner environment and safer power generation for millions of people around the world. Roughly […]

Trump Delivering: Coal Industry Alive and Well

Via OneNewsNow: Luke Popovich, vice president of communications for the National Mining Association, says the death of coal has been greatly exaggerated. “I think a lot of the major media on the coasts – and I’m talking about the most influential, big dailies – don’t like Donald Trump,” says Popovich. “Donald Trump likes coal, so they don’t […]

Increased U.S. Reliance on Natural Gas Poses Grave Security Risk

Via Lifezette:  Without coal as backup, attack on key pipelines or hubs could threaten power for millions of Americans Energy enthusiasts have been rallying around natural gas in recent years as a replacement for coal in generating electricity. And undoubtedly, the fracking revolution has unleashed more natural gas for power generation. But the resulting push […]

Rick Perry Says ‘Clean’ Coal Will Shape America’s Energy Future

Via The Daily Caller: Secretary of Energy Rick Perry emphasized in a recent interview that clean coal will highlight his energy agenda, utilizing American innovation to pursue cleaner, cheaper coal while creating jobs in the process. The Washington Examiner sat down with Perry this week at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in a suburb of […]

Kemper’s Collapse – A Speed Bump, Not a Dead End

July 19, 2017 When the Kemper Power Plant finally folded its cards, it prompted a shrill chorus of “we told you so’s” from the guardians of renewable energy. The  foundation-fueled NGOs see in Kemper’s collapse the death Nell of “clean coal”. Pity about those  miners now without a future, they say. Whatever can we do […]