Coal in the News

10Aug

Coal Looks to Make a Comeback in State

Via The Daily Sentinel: Coal production is swinging back up in Colorado and 2017 could end up being a year with 1 million more tons produced in the state than in 2016, Colorado Mining Association President Stan Dempsey said Wednesday. The improvement in the outlook for coal coincides with a change of administrations in Washington, […]
09Aug

Coal to Dominate US Electricity Market Over Next Two Years

Via The Washington Examiner: U.S. coal production will see a sustained boost over the next two years due to increased use at power plants and a rise in exports, according to the federal government’s latest energy projections. “U.S. coal production is getting a boost in 2017 from higher coal exports and more coal-fired electricity generation,” […]
07Aug

West Virginians Get the Last Laugh

Via The West Virginia Record: President Obama and his bureaucrats laughed at the citizens of West Virginia and our representatives for eight years as they waged their wicked war on coal (on behalf of other energy interests, foreign and domestic), but who’s laughing now? We are, and so is U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins. “Make no […]
03Aug

Trump Administration Hails Deal to Export Coal to Ukraine

Via The Washington Post: The Trump administration on Monday hailed a Pennsylvania-based company’s deal to supply coal to Ukraine in preparation for winter heating needs, saying it would bolster a key U.S. ally often threatened by Russia. The deal, potentially worth about $79 million, calls for Xcoal Energy and Resources to ship 700,000 tons of […]
01Aug

A Much-Needed Study of Our Electrical Grid is Coming Soon

Via The Washington Examiner: The dependability of our energy supply is essential to our way of life. Many, especially those who lived through the energy crisis of the 1970s, understand this well when it comes to vehicle fuels like gasoline. But the public often doesn’t think about the reliability of our nation’s electrical supply, even […]
31Jul

Why Coal is Number One

Via The Washington Times: Quick: what was the number one source of electricity production in the U.S. during the first half of 2017? If you answered renewable energy, you are wrong by a mile. If you answered natural gas, you were wrong by a tiny amount. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which tracks […]
29Jul

These States Couldn’t Dig the Mining Industry More Right Now

Via The Wall Street Journal: The three fastest-growing states are reaping rewards from the recently revitalized mining sector. Mining was the driving force behind growth in Texas, West Virginia and New Mexico, which grew 3.9%, 3% and 2.8%, respectively — the fastest rates of any states — in the first quarter. Just a year earlier, […]
28Jul

U.S. Coal Exports Soar, in Boost to Trump Energy Agenda, Data Show

Via The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: U.S. coal exports have jumped more than 60 percent this year due to soaring demand from Europe and Asia, according to a Reuters review of government data, allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to claim that efforts to revive the battered industry are working. The increased shipments came as the European […]
26Jul

Coal’s Benefits: Seen Only When Gone

July 26, 2017 The front-page story in Sunday’s Washington Post was a despairing look at the human cost of “the collapse of the coal industry.”  “Disabled and Disdained” is an example of a growing interest by both broadcast and print media in the social destruction left in the wake of a vanishing industry and the […]
25Jul

Reliable, Affordable Electricity Is Vital to America

Via The Morning Consult: Remember the last time you lost power at home. Even if you went without electricity for only for a few minutes, it was an inconvenience, right? Now, imagine it is the coldest stretch in years. What happens if the electricity goes out for days at a time during this brutal cold? […]