Coal in the News

14Apr

Editorial: Power Outage in DC a Harbinger of Things to Come

Via The Charleston Daily Mail:  As power outages go, the one in the Washington, D.C. area last week was relatively minor. But the outage didn’t seem minor to the dozens of people stranded on elevators, stuck deep in darkened Metro rail depots and to businesses forced to close early and lose revenue. But thanks to […]
14Apr

Guest Commentary: No Regulation Without Representation

Via The Denver Post: By John Cooke and Jerry Sonnenberg It’s always wise to be wary when Washington offers to do you a favor. As with the money Washington sends our way, there are almost always strings attached or a trap door hidden somewhere. And so it is with the favor President Barack Obama did […]
13Apr

The Dirty Secret of Obama’s Carbon Plan

Via The Wall Street Journal: By WARNER BAXTER Americans don’t give much thought to whether their electricity will be there when they need it. You flip a switch, the lights go on. Your phone charges up. The medical equipment in the emergency room does its job. Yet electric reliability, long a bedrock of this country’s prosperity […]
11Apr

EPA Regulations Hit Indiana Seniors

Via The StarPress: Energy prices are falling. If you’ve filled up your tank recently, you know that the cost of gasoline has taken a tumble. Natural gas and coal are also cheaper than they were a year ago. That’s great news, but one type of energy is bucking the trend. The price of electricity — […]
10Apr

The State Electricity Revolt

Via The Wall Street Journal: Health care, Wall Street, the Internet—by the time President Obamaleaves office, there may not be much of the economy left for his successor to take over. The better news is that his attempt to do the same to the energy industry is meeting heavy resistance in the states. The Environmental Protection […]
10Apr

Indian Coal Economy has Suffered Because of EPA Regs, Tribes Say

Via the Billings Gazette:  CROW AGENCY — The coal economy on Indian reservations is being endangered by tougher Environmental Protection Agency clean air laws, tribal officials told U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., on Wednesday. Members of the Crow, Northern Cheyenne and Navajo tribes met with Daines for a Senate Indian Affairs Committee field hearing on […]
09Apr

Wisconsin Joins Lawsuit Over EPA’s Carbon Emissions Rules

Via Chron: The state of Wisconsin has joined a federal lawsuit challenging new limits on carbon emissions from power plants. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday granted the state’s request filed last month to join 13 other states in the lawsuit brought last year by Murray Energy Corp., one of the nation’s […]
09Apr

States Will Have Diminishing Roles Under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via energycentral.com: EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has been saying repeatedly that the EPA’s Clean Power Plan to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants give states flexibility. “We’re particularly interested in making sure states and utilities can achieve emissions reductions along a flexible glide path so that they can meet their targets,” she said recently. […]
08Apr

Sen. McConnell Is Right; States Should Wait To Get Into Bed With EPA

Via Forbes: Last year, the Obama Administration proposed the Clean Power Plan (CPP), an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that would reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent. A necessary result of these carbon reductions is increased electricity costs and reduced grid reliability as coal plants are shuttered. These concerns have been well documented. State legislatures, […]
08Apr

‘Clean Power’ Could Mean Blackouts

Via the nptelegraph.com: Here’s an important question: Just how much of Nebraska’s electricity is supplied by coal? The answer is far more than one might guess. In fact, Nebraska gets 72 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power plants. But what if Nebraska were suddenly forced to seek its electricity from other sources? Could the […]