Coal in the News

28Jun

America Needs Coal and Nuclear Power for Energy Diversity

Via The Tribune-Democrat: In the face of rising electricity demand, Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently unveiled a plan to preserve some of the nation’s key coal and nuclear power plants.  It’s a sensible move since the nation’s power grid can’t rely solely on natural gas, wind and solar. What America’s families and businesses need is […]
28Jun

National View: Americans Support Shoring Up Strained U.S. Power Grid

Via The Duluth News Tribune: It often appears that the American people have more good horse sense than Washington. Case in point: right now, Beltway pundits are busily critiquing the Trump administration’s proposal to shore up baseload power in the U.S. while, at the same time, according to a new poll, a majority of Americans […]
25Jun

Let’s Not Get Rid of Coal Power Just Yet

Via The Clarion Ledger: In the face of rising electricity demand, Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently unveiled a plan to preserve some of the nation’s key coal and nuclear power plants. It’s a sensible move since the nation’s power grid can’t rely solely on natural gas, wind, and solar. What America’s families and businesses need […]
22Jun

Washington State Should Stop Blocking Planned Coal Export Terminal

Via The New York Times: In their 2007 book, “Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy,” then-Representative Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks made their opposition to coal abundantly clear. Boldly stating that coal is “killing us,” their treatise was just the beginning of a yearslong public campaign by Mr. Inslee against fossil fuels. Now, as the governor of […]
21Jun

America Needs Coal and Nuclear Power for Energy Diversity

Via The Rockland County Times: In the face of rising electricity demand, Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently unveiled a plan to preserve some of the nation’s key coal and nuclear power plants. It’s a sensible move since the nation’s power grid can’t rely solely on natural gas, wind, and solar. What America’s families and businesses […]
19Jun

Coal and Nuclear are Hedges Against Volatile Natural Gas Prices

Via The Daily Sentinel:  Imagine American consumers trying to make ends meet under the weight of soaring natural gas and electricity prices. Anyone who thinks this country no longer faces the threat of runaway energy prices should consider that almost 115,000 megawatts of “base-load” electricity-generating capacity from coal plants has been shuttered since 2010 — […]
13Jun

Save Coal and Nuclear Power — We Might Need It

Via The Deseret News: There is nothing more important for future electrical power in the United States than whether, in the wake of an enormous loss of baseload power due to overregulation in recent years, our country preserves financially stressed nuclear and coal plants for essential baseload power. Although the Trump administration has taken steps […]
11Jun

The Government Has Placed Lead Shoes on the Coal Industry

Via The Washington Post:  Catherine Rampell’s June 5 op-ed, “A new kind of ‘free market’,” revealed a glaring misunderstanding of the electricity market and the dynamics that have pushed well-operating coal and nuclear power plants into early retirement. Far from being free, the electricity marketplace has been shaped by overzealous regulation and enormous subsidies for […]
08Jun

Coal, Nuclear Power Remain Vital

Via The Times-Tribune: As the United States enters an era of upheaval in electricity markets, we are obliged to make the best possible use of energy sources through significant government intervention that will lead to greater electric stability and reliability. Because they provide baseload power around the clock, economically challenged coal and nuclear plants can […]