Coal in the News

08Dec

Gillette to Host Clean Power Plan Powwow

Via Gillette News-Record: The Energy Capital of the Nation will have a chance to put some real faces and personal stories to the nation’s coal-fired energy debate when the EPA comes to town. The agency announced Wednesday that Gillette is one of three cities that will host public hearings to gather input on the Trump […]
07Dec

EPA to Hold More Hearings on Planned Clean Power Plan Repeal

Via Gillette News Record: The Trump administration says it will hold three additional public hearings on its intention to nullify an Obama-era plan to ratchet down planet-warming carbon emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will take comments on its proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan at upcoming hearings in San Francisco, […]
06Dec

Miner’s Day Becomes Miner’s Year

December 6, 2017 Seventeen years ago, Congress set Dec. 6 as National Miner’s Day, little knowing the renewed significance this date would have in 2017. A day that was born in recognition of a tragedy – the loss of 362 men in a coal mine accident in West Virginia in 1907 — has today become […]
05Dec

U.S. Still Needs Electricity from Coal and Nuclear Plants

Via The Philadelphia Inquirer:  The boom in natural gas production from shale has led to a widespread belief that the United States no longer needs nuclear and coal plants to meet the demand for electricity. That belief is wrong.  For starters, consider the continued increase in the nation’s need for electricity, which the Energy Information […]
01Dec

The EPA Comes to West Virginia – to Listen

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: It’s taken a while — several years in fact — but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finally come to West Virginia to hear testimony about the Clean Power Plan. There was plenty of pent-up demand to be heard. As many as 200 people testified Tuesday and Wednesday at the state […]
30Nov

Science Dies in the Dark

November 30, 2017 During the last administration, serving in the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy was akin to tending bar during Prohibition.  There was often demand for a stiff drink, but teetotalers made sure that “alcoholic beverages” weren’t on offer. So it was with the fossil energy office at a time when coal […]
29Nov

Officials Voice Support of Repealing Clean Power Plan in West Virginia Coal Association Rally

Via The Register-Herald: Some state officials and industry supporters spoke in favor of repealing the Clean Power Plan at a Tuesday rally outside the Capitol where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is conducting it two-day public comment hearings on the proposed repeal. The West Virginia Coal Association hosted the rally with speakers, including Senate President […]
28Nov

Coal Country Pressures EPA to Repeal Clean Power Plan ‘In Its Entirety’ During Hearing

Via The Washington Examiner: Coal country ripped into former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan in Charleston, W.Va., on Tuesday, during the only hearing the Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled on its plans to repeal the restrictions on power plant emissions. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey kicked off the first of two days of […]
28Nov

U.S. EPA Takes Repeal of Clean Power Plan to Coal Country

Via Reuters: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency heard testimony from coal miners, lobbyists, environmentalists and others on Tuesday at a public meeting in West Virginia on the agency’s proposal to dismantle an Obama-era plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants The two-day hearing in Charleston on the proposal to axe the Clean Power Plan […]
28Nov

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito: Trump EPA Bringing Positive Change

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: This Tuesday and Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency is holding a listening session in Charleston on its proposal to withdraw from the Obama administration’s so-called Clean Power Plan. The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from this plan, and the decision to hear directly from West Virginians, demonstrate a positive change from the job-killing […]