Coal in the News

29Aug

Switching to Gas Power Plants More Expensive than Coal, Study Says

Via The Tribune Star: A recent study for the mining industry found the cost of shutting down coal-fired power plants and replacing them with gas-fired plants would far exceed the cost of maintaining the coal plants. The study by Arlington, Virginia-based Energy Ventures Analysis involved three plants located in the nation’s largest wholesale electricity market. […]
27Aug

Trump Ends Obama’s War on Coal

Via The Washington Examiner: Last week’s announcement from the Trump administration, on the EPA’s new Affordable Clean Energy Plan to replace the Clean Power Plan, is another welcome addition to President Trump’s list of promises fulfilled that benefit American workers. The American economy has long languished under burdensome, radical regulations imposed by the Obama administration. […]
27Aug

Fixing Clean Power Plan is Sensible First Step

Via The Huntington Herald-Dispatch: Washington loves controversy. And critics are undoubtedly clucking right now about the Trump administration’s plan to replace the Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a modified effort. But the administration deserves credit for updating the plan, rather than scrapping it entirely. For starters, the CPP envisioned by President Obama represented a massive […]
27Aug

Trump’s Coal Plan Works for West Virginia

Via The Journal: Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it followed through on President Donald Trump’s executive order to review and repeal the Clean Power Plan. From its inception, the CPP was a total overreach of the federal bureaucracy. That’s why West Virginia led 24 states in fighting the rule in court, arguing […]
23Aug

Fixing the Clean Power Plan is Sensible First Step

Via The Piqua Daily Call: Washington loves controversy. And critics are undoubtedly clucking right now about the Trump administration’s plan to replace the Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a modified effort. But the administration deserves credit for updating the plan, rather than scrapping it entirely. For starters, the CPP envisioned by President Obama represented a […]
22Aug

Trump Administration Proposes Rule to Relax Carbon Limits on Power Plants

Via The Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency officially put forward on Tuesday its proposal for replacing the Clean Power Plan, the heart of President Barack Obama’s efforts to curb greenhouse gases from the nation’s power plants. But folded into the Trump administration’s latest rollback is a change to a permitting program little known outside of industries that have to contend with it, such as the power […]
21Aug

EPA Head Signs Proposal to Undo Restrictions on Coal Plants

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration moved to overturn Obama-era environmental rules on power-plant emissions, a long-telegraphed action designed to help coal-burning plants compete with natural gas and other cleaner alternatives as a national energy source. Andrew Wheeler, President Trump’s acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on Monday signed a proposal to scrap environmental restrictions on […]
21Aug

Power Plan Replacement Rule Restores Federal and State Balance Mandated by Law

See the Press Release here. Hal Quinn, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Mining Association (NMA), issued the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed replacement rule. “Through the replacement rule, the EPA has returned to a lawful framework for regulation of power plant emissions. The Clean Air Act […]
20Aug

Trump Set to Roll Back Restrictions on Coal-burning Power Plants

Via The Wall Street Journal:  The Trump administration is escalating an effort to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry with a planned move next week to replace restrictive Obama-era climate policies with new rules designed to help coal-burning plants run harder and stay open longer. The proposed new rules, which the Environmental Protection Agency plans […]
15Aug

Bank of the West’s Climate Change Mission Fuels Coal Country Backlash

Via The Washington Times: If Al Gore started a savings-and-loan, it might look something like the climate-conscious Bank of the West, and that’s become a source of friction in the coal-mining counties of Colorado and Wyoming. State and local officials are seeking to close their accounts with the San Francisco-based bank over its recently publicized decision to withdraw […]