Coal in the News

03Jul

Coal Still Provides Opportunities for American Job Creation and Consumer Choice

Via RealClearEnergy: President Trump’s executive order scaling back Obama-era initiatives such as the Clean Power Plan, along with other environmental regulations, was received with the expected pomp from liberals and conservatives alike. But it doesn’t take a bleeding heart to see the writing on the wall: while the coal industry may have been given new […]
02Jul

Coal Industry Says Stability is Good News

Via West Virginia MetroNews: A new report foresees stabilization of West Virginia’s coal industry over the next 15 or so years, but then a period of production decline to below 80 million tons after 2030. That’s actually not such bad news, say leaders of the West Virginia Coal Association. That kind of prediction means coal remains a vital and […]
02Jul

EPA To Consider Impact On Jobs

Via The Wheeling News-Register: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is not required to estimate the number of mining job losses that may be caused by air pollution regulations, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. Despite the decision, the agency said that under President Donald Trump it would consider the impact of its policies on jobs. […]
01Jul

Sturdiness of America’s Power Grid a Key Issue for Energy Study

Via News-Democrat Leader: Americans have been exceptionally fortunate in recent decades to enjoy robust power generation to heat their homes, refrigerate their food, and deliver clean drinking water. Unlike many countries, the United States maintains affordable, non-stop, 24/7 electricity. It’s an impressive feat in a nation of 325 million that continues to add more than […]
30Jun

Guest Commentary: Clean Coal Part of Broad Fuel Portfolio

Via The News-Gazette: Our demand for electricity will continue to increase, notwithstanding improved energy efficiency. This is because we continue to find more and more uses for electricity, including our constantly increasing use of computers and other electronics and the greater number of electric vehicles on the road. A responsible policy for generating this electricity […]
30Jun

Trump Vows ‘Energy Dominance’

Via The Wheeling News-Register: The Trump administration said Thursday it is taking steps to expand oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans as President Donald Trump continues to push for U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market. The Interior Department is rewriting a five-year drilling plan established by the Obama administration, with an eye toward opening […]
29Jun

How Strong is America’s Power Grid?

Via The Montgomery Advertiser: Americans have been exceptionally fortunate in recent decades to enjoy robust power generation to heat their homes, refrigerate their food, and deliver clean drinking water. Unlike many countries, the United States maintains affordable, non-stop, 24/7 electricity. It’s an impressive feat in a nation of 325 million that continues to add more […]
29Jun

NMA Applauds President’s Energy Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. mining industry applauded the administration’s bold emphasis on creating a robust market for all sources of domestic energy that the president highlighted in his energy speech today. “A strong energy industry is a goal that will benefit all Americans and is achievable without diminishing the significant environmental protections that Americans […]
28Jun

OPINION: Trump’s Energy Plan will Make America the New Saudi Arabia

Via The Hill: This past week, President Trump renewed his promise of an era of American global energy dominance. It’s an achievable goal and a quintessential “America first” theme that Trump should keep playing. Trump recognizes what almost all his critics choose to ignore: we are entering an age of American energy renaissance that will […]
28Jun

The Western US’s Largest Coal Plant Has A ‘Fighting Chance’ Of Survival

Via The Daily Caller: Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke hailed the Navajo Nation’s ratification of a new lease with operators of the largest coal-fired power plant in the western U.S., staving off its immediate decommissioning. Zinke said the action gave Navajo and Hopi workers a “fighting chance” to keep their jobs at the coal […]