23Jan

Obama’s Coal Last Rites

Via The Wall Street Journal: U.S. coal producers are staggering under Environmental Protection Agency regulations and low natural gas prices. Now the ObamaAdministration is giving the industry its last rites by halting new coal leases on federal lands where mining is still profitable. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has declared a three-year moratorium on coal leases […]
22Jan

Coal Leasing Moratorium

Via The New York Times: To the Editor: Re “Mr. Obama Says Coal Hasn’t Paid Its Own Way” (editorial, Jan. 16): The Obama administration’s federal coal leasing moratorium is the latest symbolic yet costly gesture to show climate leadership. Fossil fuels will supply 80 percent of the world’s energy needs through at least 2040. Real […]
22Jan

Coal Leasing Suspension Bad for Consumers

Via The Bismarck Tribune: Doesn’t it seem like almost every other week President Barack Obama does something affecting North Dakota citizens in a negative way either through executive order or via directive from one of the government agencies? First it was the Keystone XL pipeline veto, then it was the order by the Environmental Protection […]
22Jan

Obama Escalates His War on American Energy

Last Friday, Interior Secretary Jewell ordered a halt to new coal mining leases on federal land and a review of the federal coal program. This order will accelerate deteriorating market conditions in the coal industry and undercut economic opportunity across America. It is the latest attack in the administration’s war on American energy. Last Friday, […]
21Jan

Interior Reviews Coal Lease Program Leaving Manufacturers in Dust

Via Shopfloor.org: Friday, the Department of Interior announced it would develop new guidelines for development of coal resources on federal lands. Included in the announcement was a moratorium on new leases of coal on these federal lands until a new environmental impact study is completed. These studies take years, and Secretary Sally Jewell said the […]
21Jan

Here’s How Much Obama Cost Americans By Banning New Coal Leases

Via The Daily Caller:  President Barack Obama’s decision to put a moratorium on new coal mine leases could end up costing Americans billions of dollars as more federal lands are locked up. Instead, if Obama could have generated nearly $88 billion of economic activity from opening more federally-controlled lands to coal mining, according to a […]
20Jan

War On Fossil Fuel: One Coal-ossal Mistake

Via Investors Business Daily:  Energy Policy: President Obama’s war on coal took its biggest leap yet last week when the Department of the Interior announced that it will suspend all new leases for coal production on federal lands. Along with Obama’s multiple EPA regulations, including his Clean Power Plant executive action, this could cripple future […]
20Jan

Stream Protection Rule Battle Continues

Via The Wheeling News-Register: WHEELING -The U.S. House of Representatives is trying to prevent the Obama administration from implementing the Stream Protection Rule, a strategy which the National Mining Association claims will destroy 78,000 more coal jobs and up to 280,000 related jobs. Even in the face of the Clean Power Plan that targets carbon […]
20Jan

Killing Coal: The Obama Administration’s Intentional Assault on an Industry

Via The Canada Free Press: By now, most people are aware of President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to bankrupt the coal industry—which he acknowledged would “necessarily” cause electricity to skyrocket. Seven years later, that is a campaign promise he is keeping. Since moving into the White House, Obama has used bureaucratic weapons and administrative agencies […]