27Oct

Rob Portman Touts Importance of Coal in Visit to Tuscarawas County Mine

Via The Times Reporter: DENNISON U.S. Sen. Rob Portman stopped at the Tusky Mine on Wednesday to meet with coal miners as part of his 35-county “Countdown to Victory” RV Tour. “I love doing these tours,” said Portman, who is running for reelection this year. “It gives us a chance to see what’s actually happening […]
26Oct

Clean Coal: A Light In The Coming Energy Void

Via The Daily Caller: There have been few heroes in this utterly tiresome political silly season. We’re all sick of what Donald Trump is grabbing and what Hillary Clinton is deleting, where Gary Johnson is Aleppo-ing and that Jill Stein even exists. For a few briefs moments at the end of second debate, though, it […]
26Oct

The Reality of Regulatory Costs

October 26, 2016 In a Facebook interview last week, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy acknowledged the obvious: her support for the environmental left’s “keep it in the ground” policy (“I think we share the same goal”), that coal state economies are suffering (they’re “in trouble” she allowed) and EPA’s regulations likely contributed (they may “steepen the […]
25Oct

Mooney Calls for Closer Look at Stream Protection Rule

Via West Virginia MetroNews: WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Virginia Second District Congressman Alex Mooney urged an Obama administration official to take a close look at the economic impact the federal Stream Protection Rule would have on the Mountain State in a meeting that took place in Washington, D.C. earlier this week. Mooney met with Office of Management […]
24Oct

EPA Undeterred by Court Rulings

Via The Salem News: Let us hope there remains enough fidelity to the Constitution among U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials that a federal judge’s order on Monday means something to them. Unfortunately, recent history suggests that may be an unrealistic thought. Ohioans and millions of other Americans who may not even understand the stakes won […]
24Oct

EPA Required to Follow Law: Imagine That!

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: Perhaps the Obama appointees at the burgeoning U.S. Environmental Protection Agency didn’t believe they’d ever hear such a statement. But U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia Judge John Preston Bailey said in a ruling earlier this week the EPA must follow the law. It’s a shocker, we […]
21Oct

Morrisey Praised for Defending W.Va. Coal Miners

Via The Wheeling News-Register: For the last four years, no one has done more to defend our jobs, our industry and our West Virginia way of life than Patrick Morrisey, as our Attorney General. On behalf of our coal industry, our managers and the best coal miners in the world, we have to do everything […]
20Oct

Judge Tells EPA to Calculate Job Losses From its Rules

Via West Virginia MetroNews: One of the recurring debates over climate change policy is whether the EPA’s regulatory actions to control carbon emissions have caused the decline in the coal industry. Coal critics typically attribute the industry’s collapse  to natural gas becoming more plentiful and cheap and, in West Virginia’s case, the increased cost of […]
19Oct

Time for Court to Limit EPA’s power Over Electricity

Via The Great Falls Tribune: Late last month, an appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard a case that will determine whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to require states to restructure the electric grid. At issue is the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which would expand the power of the federal government immensely, cost […]
19Oct

STEYER V PODESTA on Renewables

October 19, 2016 In the latest round of personal email leaks, energy policy jumped into the headlines with an interesting exchange between renewable energy bankroller Tom Steyer and renewable energy advocate and current Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. Last summer Steyer told The New York Times he couldn’t support any presidential candidate who refused to […]