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24Sep

Can America’s Power Grid Support Millions of Electric Cars?

Via The Gazette: There’s little doubt that a global technology revolution is underway. And the sweep of change over the past decade alone has been stunning. Electric cars and smart phones are proving that the world has gone high-tech. Many analysts now believe that a “deep electrification” of the U.S. economy is coming, too, thanks […]
  • On September 24, 2018
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13Sep

Analysts Expect Us Coal Exports to Continue Surging In 2018

Via The Daily Caller: U.S. coal exports are expected to surge 10 percent in the next year, according to new forecasts by the Energy Department’s statistics arm. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that while coal production will fall one percent in 2018, exports will surge 10 percent above 2017. Coal exports were up 32 percent […]
  • On September 13, 2018
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12Sep

Washington State in Legal Battle with 6 States After it Refuses to Build Coal Export Terminal

Via Fox News: A lawsuit has pitted six landlocked states against Washington State over a simple question: Who owns the federal ports? Washington State is denying the states the permits required to build a large coal export terminal along the Columbia River. The states have sued and Washington filed a motion for dismissal. But U.S. […]
  • On September 12, 2018
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10Sep

Letter: Stand Up for Coal-fired Plants

Via The Herald-Star: The U.S. produces about 1 billion tons of coal annually, a little less than 12 percent of the world supply. Coal generates about 40 percent of the electricity in the U.S., and nine out of 10 tons of coal in the U.S. are used to generate electricity. The U.S. has about 235-year […]
  • On September 10, 2018
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10Sep

Trump Stops Rally to Call Coal Miner on Stage. Miner Says Trump Brought Him ‘Back to Life’

Via The Daily Caller: President Donald Trump paused a campaign speech in North Dakota to bring an unexpected guest onstage. Trump was commenting on the resurgence of the coal industry in America and telling a story about a man who runs a coal mine thanking him for making the industry “vibrant again.” “He said, ‘Sir, […]
  • On September 10, 2018
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04Sep

Trump’s Clean Power Plan Replacement is Exactly What the Coal Industry Needs

Via The Hill: According to Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.), “Trump’s latest energy plan leaves American energy and innovation in the dark.” The baseless broadside against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule is, to borrow the words of William Shakespeare, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Arguably, McNerney’s views should come as no […]
  • On September 4, 2018
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04Sep

Letter: Trump Delivers on Promises

Via The Roanoke Times: Between 2011 and the close of 2016, more than 62,000 U.S. coal miners — nearly half of the coal mining workforce — lost their jobs. This wasn’t just the product of a challenging marketplace. The coal industry was the target of a series of purposeful and carefully-orchestrated regulatory punches from a […]
  • On September 4, 2018
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04Sep

EPA Plan Makes it Possible to Reduce Emissions Without Failed Obama-era Regulations

Via The Washington Examiner: A diverse, reliable mix of fuels is essential to achieving President Trump’s goal of America being a global energy superpower. By recognizing the value of energy supplies that deliver power around-the-clock, the Trump administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are doing what they can to ensure that coal plants undergird the electric […]
  • On September 4, 2018
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31Aug

Washington’s Fall Agenda: EPA to Focus on New Power Plant, Water Rules

Via The Hill:  Federal officials will be hard at work throughout the fall, moving forward with high-profile actions to implement President Trump’s agenda to dismantle major environmental regulations, boost fossil fuel production and streamline protections for endangered species. Rather than follow the pattern of a typically slow August bookended by congressional recesses, the Environmental Protection Agency […]
  • On August 31, 2018
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29Aug

EPA Head: New Coal Plant Plan Will ‘Level the Playing Field

Via The Hill:  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Tuesday said that the administration’s newly proposed alternative to the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) will “level the playing field” for coal plants in an era where renewable fuels and liquid natural gas are growing in prominence. Speaking at an Ohio Chamber of Commerce event, Wheeler praised […]
  • On August 29, 2018
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