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Trump’s Coal Push Grinds into High Gear

Via The Washington Examiner: The Trump administration could call Thursday “National Coal Day.” Several Cabinet officials are spreading out to push clean coal, coal power plants and coal mining. The activities got started Wednesday afternoon when Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with Native American leaders to brainstorm ways the Trump administration can help prevent one […]

Good Riddance to Obama’s Job-killing ‘Clean Power Plan’

Via The Delco Times: It made for colorful news this week — President Trump announcing a halt to the Obama administration’s massive “Clean Power Plan.” Pundits immediately leapt to criticize the president, saying that canceling the plan would mean more costs and more “pollution” for America’s consumers. Such fear-mongering is simply incorrect, though, and demonstrates […]

EPA Launches New Agenda in Coal Country

Via The Washington Examiner: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt joined the coal industry in Pennsylvania Thursday to launch what he called the agency’s “Back-to-Basics” agenda, in which Washington gets out of the way of states’ natural resources development. “What better way to launch EPA’s Back-to-Basics agenda than visiting the hard-working coal miners who help […]

What Trump Can Do for Coal

April 13, 2017 By now we know his reputation. Shoots from the lip, dismisses facts as inconvenient truths, creates his own truth from his unassailable position as billionaire newsmaker. Yup, that’s Michael Bloomberg. With a recent editorial in The New York Times and new speechifying to green groups, the Sierra Club financier who once scolded […]

NMA Hails Pruitt’s Support for Coal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Mining Association (NMA) president and CEO Hal Quinn issued the following statement regarding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s visit today at the Harvey Mine and training complex in Pennsylvania: “It’s encouraging to hear a senior government official recognize the contribution that America’s coal resources, the world’s largest, make to our nation’s economy […]

Crushed by Coal’s Survival

April 5, 2017 “This day may be remembered as a low point in human history …” — David Arkush, head climate programs for Public Citizen. That day? Last Tuesday. The “end of days” event?  President Trump signing an executive order blunting the regulatory assault on U.S. coal. Bad enough the president prefers his steak well done, […]

Big Coal Starts Hiring, Opening Plants, ‘Through the Roof’

Via The Washington Examiner: West Virginia coal industry executive Mike Grose knows fake news when he sees it. And the headlines claiming that President Trump’s new executive order to dismantle clean power rules won’t revive mining employment were Exhibit A. “It’s growing, a lot better than it ever was,” said Grose, owner of Superior and […]

Coal Should Be Part Of Energy Mix Given National Clean Power Plan Rollback

Via WIBW News: A pro-coal attorney and former member of the Missouri Public Service Commission sees the rollback of the Clean Power Plan by President Donald Trump as a positive. “Coal plants that were slated to close within the next three to four years will remain open,” said Terry Jarrett. “Coal will now be able […]

The Climate Yawns

Via The Wall Street Journal: The oddest criticism of Donald Trump’s climate action this week was the claim, mentioned almost triumphantly by every news source, that it would save few coal jobs. The economic and technological forces, especially the flood of low-carbon natural gas from fracking, are just too powerful. Then why, if you’re a […]

Trump’s Rollback of Coal Rules Electrifies Wyoming Workers

Via The Observer-Reporter: This hardscrabble Wyoming city of about 30,000 people proclaims itself the “Energy Capital of the Nation” on the mayor’s blue blazer and even the parking ticket payment boxes. Nearby are some of the world’s largest open-pit mines, where dump trucks the size of houses haul out more than 40 percent of the […]