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19May

Labor’s Liberals Vs. Steyer’s Progressives

May 19, 2016 As greens demanded the administration keep federal coal in the ground this week, the biggest difference between yesterday’s “liberals” and today’s “progressives” was on buck-naked display. In a sulfurous letter to AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka, Laborers International Union President Terry O’Sullivan denounced Trumka’s decision to accept Tom Steyer’s green super PAC money. […]
16May

Keeping Coal in the Ground – What the Administration Should Hear

May 16, 2016 The Department of the Interior begins its listening sessions today in Caspar, Wyo. to hear stakeholder comments on its announced multi-year moratorium on new sales of coal leased from federal land. This is a down payment to the Sierra Club and other climate change activists who want to “keep coal in the […]
11May

Destroying Coal to Save It

April 11, 2016 On the eve of primaries in West Virginia and Kentucky, EPA Administrator McCarthy inadvertently showed why voters are fed up with Washington. – She bewailed the plight of coal communities as her agency aggressively regulates their primary employer out of business, then offers the victims a taxpayer-funded aid package to mitigate the suffering […]
04May

Coal Takes Center Stage Off Broadway

May 4, 2016 The value of coal to the economy and to presidential aspirations won powerful endorsements on the campaign trail this week.  Both presumptive candidates for the White House gave coal and coal jobs top billing, albeit in very different ways.  What they left unmistakably clear, however, was that coal and the communities it […]
27Apr

Blue States See Red Over EPA’s Costly Power Plan

April 27, 2016 Virginia and Minnesota, two states run by Democratic administrations, are seeing red over Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). In Virginia, the House of Delegates voted to forbid the Department of Environmental Quality from spending state money to implement the CPP. In defiance of its governor and the president, Virginia’s legislators refused […]
20Apr

Despite the PARIS Treaty, Coal Demand Will Surge

April 20, 2016: Global coal demand is rising – undermining the Obama administration’s environmental rationale for regulating the domestic coal industry out of existence to address climate change. Real environmental leadership would instead advance low-emission, high-efficiency technology to address global emissions. At the climate accord signing ceremony in New York Friday, the administration and its […]