17Jun

Lies, Damned Lies, And The EPA’s ‘Clean Power Plan’

Via Investor’s Business Daily: President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” is on pause, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in March after more than two dozen states filed suit to stop it. A new report shows why the plan should be scrapped entirely, and the EPA sued for fraud. By its own admission, the EPA says […]
16Jun

Study: EPA Overstated Benefits And Ignored Costs of Clean Power Plan

Via The Daily Caller: The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan overstates its benefits and underestimates its costs, according to a new study published Thursday by the conservative Manhattan Institute. “My conclusion is that there are few benefits, which have been massively overestimated, and huge costs, which have been massively underestimated,” Dr. Jonathan Lesser, […]
15Jun

House Lawmakers Clash Over Coal Royalties

Via Environment & Energy Daily: House lawmakers are split along partisan lines on legislation that would allow state and tribal leaders a greater say in federal land decisions in the wake of the Obama administration’s controversial moratorium on new federal coal leases. The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources met yesterday to […]
15Jun

Zinke Pushes to End Coal Lease Suspension, Empower Communities

 Via The Billings Gazette:  State and tribal governments deserve a bigger say in federal coal policies, U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke said Tuesday, while seeking to overturn a temporary federal ban on coal leases. Montana’s lone Congressman, told the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources that the federal decision suspending coal leasing earlier […]
14Jun

“Keep it in the Ground” Energy Policies Threaten America’s Prosperity

Washington, D.C. — The National Mining Association (NMA) this week highlighted the mounting evidence that unbalanced energy plans designed to limit America’s energy diversity are threatening the U.S. economy, communities, and access to reliable and affordable energy. On June 14, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources hears testimony from those most impacted […]
14Jun

House Hears Costs of Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground

June 14, 2016 This week we heard more evidence, as if any is needed, on the mounting costs of the Obama administration’s de facto energy policy.  That would be its short-sighted determination to keep fossil fuels like coal in the ground. Today, Wyoming’s top economic official, Alex Kean, told a House panel that royalties from […]
14Jun

Obama Legacy Will Be Power Blackouts

Via Newsmax: President Obama is burning his so-called bridges to a “green energy” future that will leave America’s families and industries powerlessly impoverished. Any notions that generously subsidized solar and wind will significantly compensate capacity losses from shuttered coal plants and overregulated oil and natural gas suppliers are scientifically and economically delusional. And as for […]
13Jun

A Cautionary Tale on Coal

Via TribeLive: I was happy to read that at least two state attorneys general are pushing against the political persecution of ExxonMobil by climate activists, who want to use lawsuits, the threat of expensive litigation and possibly jail time to silence critics of global warming alarmism ( “Chilling heat: Two AGs counter brethren’s climate claims” […]
13Jun

EPA Accused of ‘Scare Tactic’ on Clean Power Plan Stay

Via Bloomberg BNA:  Suggestions that the Environmental Protection Agency might not extend the deadlines in its Clean Power Plan, should the rule ultimately be upheld following a lengthy judicial stay, are a “scare tactic” to force states to continue their preparations, opponents of the rule testified June 9. The EPA’s insistence on moving forward with […]
11Jun

Showers But With a Chance of Sun

Via World Coal:  The current state of the US coal industry is a microcosm of a global market for coal still ailing from unfavourable macroeconomic trends. This year will extend a difficult period of capacity adjustments that US producers are making to align production with more modest demand scenarios. US coal production, last year, was […]