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EPA Proposes 111(b) Revisions to Advance Clean Energy Technology

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to revise the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for greenhouse gas emissions from new, modified, and reconstructed fossil fuel-fired power plants. EPA is proposing, under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111(b), to revise its determination of the best system of emission reduction (BSER) for these plants. This determination […]

Boost to Black-lung Fund Unfair Burden on Mining Industry

Via The Lexington Herald-Leader: Now is the absolute wrong time for a tax increase on the coal industry. And yet a tax increase is exactly what the industry — and the communities it supports — will face if some in Congress and the Herald-Leader’s editorial board get their way. The tax in question is the tax imposed […]

Climate Change Dominates Energy Forum with EPA Chief

Via DailyEnergyInsider: The Trump administration is supporting clean energy policies to reduce air and water pollution, while critics claim these initiatives cannot be legitimized without embracing the recently released National Climate Assessment. In the Washington Post’s forum The Energy 202 last week, acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler said he had […]

The World Needs Affordable, Reliable Energy. Coal is Here to Stay.

The New York Times has once again discovered that the world needs coal. In a recent piece examining – or more accurately, demonizing – coal’s staying power, particularly in Asia, The Times gave a glancing and biased treatment of a selection of reasons big and small for why coal remains the world’s leading fuel for […]

Consol’s Pa. Coal Complex Setting Production Records but Keeping Focus on Safety

Via S&P Global Intelligence: Despite an ongoing secular decline in domestic consumption, Consol Energy Inc. is set to post a record coal production year from its three-mine complex in Pennsylvania, a sprawling underground mining operation several times larger than the island of Manhattan. The company has not only survived but thrived during an overall decrease in U.S. coal demand […]

The Value of Balance

As an early snow fell on Washington last week, the east coast got a timely reminder of the value of fuel diversity. Despite U.S. natural gas production continuing to set records, U.S. natural gas prices spiked. The Financial Times reported that natural gas prices jumped 16 percent in one day – their biggest one-day gain […]

Coal Plants May Get A Lifeline in New Senate Bill

Via The Daily Caller: A Senate bill introduced Monday would expand a federal loan program to cover coal plants that meet efficiency and emissions standards. Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana introduced the Reinvigorating American Energy Infrastructure Act to make coal plants eligible to receive federal loans under the Department of Energy’s loan program for fossil fuel, […]

Coal and Energy Alliance Presents Awards

Via Southwest Virginia Today: Eleven awards of excellence were presented to Southwest Virginia coal companies during the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance’s 47th annual Fall Meeting and “Excellence In Mining Awards,” Monday bat the Russell County Government Center in Lebanon. Awards presented included those for AML enhancement, best active surface mine, best completed surface mine, […]

Global Coal Demand Increased In 2017

Via Forbes: Even with the Paris climate accords signed in late-2015, global coal demand in 2017 rose for the first time in two years, as reported by the Paris-based International Energy Agency during its annual World Energy Outlook release week. We energy-saturated Westerners, of course, have a hard time understanding this. We should know, however, that any anti-coal policy that we impose is […]