Coal in the News

27May

New federal power plant rules will raise electricity prices (AL.com)

By Hal Quinn Surging electricity prices during this year’s harsh winter caught many consumers by surprise when their bill came due. The bad news is that electricity costs could get worse in the months and years ahead. Many consumers already see this coming. According to a new Harris Poll of 2,058 adults conducted in April […]
21May

Cleaner air could mean higher electric bills

NEW YORK – Electricity prices are probably on their way up across much of the U.S. as coal-fired plants, the dominant source of cheap power, shut down in response to environmental regulations and economic forces. New and tighter pollution rules and tough competition from cleaner sources such as natural gas, wind and solar will lead […]
07May

New Poll Finds Most Americans Worried EPA Regulations Will Lead to Higher Electricity Prices

Most consumers also concerned EPA policies will lead to black-outs and brown-outs Washington, D.C. — Most Americans (76%) are at least somewhat worried that new regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to remove coal-powered electricity from the nation’s energy mix will lead to higher prices for consumers, according to an online survey of […]
05May

Dominion seeks to recover roughly $300M in polar vortex fuel costs from customers

Rod Kuckro, E&E reporter The extreme cold during this past winter’s polar vortex and subsequent weeks forced Dominion Virginia Power to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to cover the high cost of natural gas used to produce electricity as well as extra power bought in the PJM Interconnection’s wholesale market. Now, the Richmond, Va.-based […]
30Mar

Coal Must Be a Part of the Nation’s Future

There is a battle going on in our nation right now over the future of energy, and West Virginia is at the center of this debate. We are the nation’s third largest energy producer and second largest producer of coal. Yet, there is an effort by some to not only limit how we use and […]
24Mar

EPA’s coal regs: all pain, no gain for Wisconsin

Wisconsin’s economy has been on the upswing, but Washington’s proposed greenhouse gas regulations could change all that. The Environmental Protection Agency’s prospective crackdown on new and existing power plants will drive up energy prices across the nation, but the proposed regulations will hit Badger State families and businesses particularly hard. The latest surge in the […]
10Mar

Quinn: Don’t worry about EPA power plant regulations?

It was good to see that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy traveled last week from the nation’s capital to visit an energy capital. They spoke truth to power, posing good questions that voiced the skepticism of North Dakotans about EPA’s regulations and the concerns of most Americans about the regulatory impact on the economy […]
10Mar

J. Winston Porter: We need to keep coal in our energy mix

President Obama spoke of his “all of the above” energy strategy during the recent State of the Union address, but his actions tell a very different story. Coal, America’s most abundant fuel and the workhorse of our electricity supply, is being kicked aside. The president is pushing the to make it virtually impossible to build new coal plants in the […]
06Mar

Harsh Winter Reveals Necessity Of Coal

For the past three months, millions of Americans on the East Coast have endured constant freezing temperatures, regular deluges of snow, and expensive heating and electric bills. Pulling out all the stops to keep the East Coast’s lights on, utilities and grid operators employed every source of power they could to stave off dangerous brown […]
26Feb

RPT-West Virginia senator pushes coal bill as counterweight to EPA

As the Obama administration readies rules to force all U.S. power plants to lower the rate at which they produce greenhouse gases, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a major coal state, is trying to steer a bill through the Senate that he said would hold off the Environmental Protection Agency. The bill that Manchin, […]