Coal in the News

01Dec

Obama’s Appalachian Tragedy

Via The Wall Street Journal:  ‘The traveler comes to the Appalachians in the lovely season. He sees the hills, the streams, the foliage—but not the poor.” That passage comes from “The Other America,” Michael Harrington’s 1962 book that opened the eyes of liberal policy makers to America’s invisible poverty. The classic work helped provide the […]
01Dec

How High Will Obama’s EPA regulations Drive Your Power Bill?

Via personalliberty.com: Within the next 15 years, electricity consumers in every state — which means just about everybody in America — will be paying as much as 25 percent more than they’re paying now, thanks to President Obama’s war on coal. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce power plant carbon […]
01Dec

EPA Regulations Threaten Alabamians’ Jobs, Quality of Life and Liberty

Via Yellow Hammer News.com In 2008, Barack Obama stated that under his plan, “electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket.” Unless something is done about the plethora of mandates being instituted by his liberal EPA, we will see that become a reality in the very near future. In 2015 alone, there were six major rules that were […]
30Nov

President Obama, Have Pity on the Working Man

Via Breitbart.com: Leading up to the meeting, the president recently announced a “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) to curb carbon dioxide emissions from America’s power plants. Such an effort may bolster the president’s credentials as a climate leader. But his plan requires a staggering transformation of America’s power sector that is simply too costly to implement. Under […]
30Nov

Obama Takes His Reckless Energy Plan to the United Nations

Via The Washington Post:  By Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate. It would obviously be irresponsible for an outgoing president to purport to sign the American people up to international commitments based on a domestic energy plan that is likely illegal, that half the states have […]
27Nov

EPA Regulations To Cause Double-Digit Electricity Price Increases In Nearly Every State

Via The Daily Caller:  People should enjoy the relatively low electricity prices while they can this Thanksgiving season, because nearly every state could see double-digit increases in electricity rates due to federal regulations forcing coal plants to retire, according to two separate studies. Two new studies by Energy Ventures Analysis and NERA Economic Consulting claim […]
25Nov

Congress Can Cool Off Obama’s Climate Plans

Via The Wall Street Journal:  When the U.N. climate-change talks convene in Paris next week, the risks will be high for American taxpayers. President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it. The inevitable outcome is a plan with unproven benefits and unreachable goals, but very real costs. It […]
24Nov

New EPA Rules Would Dismantle State Plans for Energy Supply

Via The Delco Times: The quest for cleaner energy is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, and has fueled many “green” initiatives in recent years. But something troubling is coming down the pike now that the Obama administration has announced its new “Clean Power Plan.” In a full-speed-ahead quest to lower carbon […]
24Nov

Energy Chief: Electricity Prices Will Jump 25% Under Obama Plan

Via The Washington Examiner: “What a glorious mess is being created in America,” Murray plans to say at Thursday’s Texas Public Policy Foundation’s second annual At the Crossroads: Energy & Climate Policy Summit. “President Obama is the greatest destroyer and enemy of available, reliable, affordable electricity that the United States has ever seen,” added Murray, […]
23Nov

Take an Honest Look at the Pain EPA will Cause in North Dakota

Via Inforum:  Dean Hulse recently took Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., to task (letter, Forum, Nov. 10) for sponsoring a resolution of disapproval of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. He notes, however, that EPA’s plan to reduce carbon dioxide would account for some measure of pain on North Dakota. So let’s look at the pain and […]