Coal in the News

03Jan

Congress Must Act Quickly to Axe Stream Rule

Via The Montana Standard: On the way out the door, the Obama administration just threw one more regulatory punch at America’s coal miners. Just days before Christmas, the outgoing administration published its extreme stream rule in order to guarantee it will take effect the day before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. This 1,640-page […]
29Dec

Congress Can Act to Help Coal Survive Regulatory Onslaught

Via The Kearney Courier: On the way out the door, the Obama administration just threw one more regulatory punch at America’s coal miners. Just days before Christmas, the outgoing administration published its extreme stream rule in order to guarantee it will take effect the day before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. This 1,640-page […]
29Dec

Dial Back Rules Threatening North Dakota’s Coal Miners

Via The Grand Forks Herald: WASHINGTON—On its way out the door, the Obama administration just threw one more regulatory punch at North Dakota’s coal miners. Just days before Christmas, the outgoing administration published its extreme stream rule in order to guarantee it will take effect the day before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. […]
28Dec

Trump’s Day-One Chance to Turn Back ‘War on Coal’

Via Lifezette.com During the recent election cycle, Donald J. Trump vowed to roll back the onerous environmental restrictions currently besieging America’s coal communities. It was a sensible campaign pledge, since the coal industry has shed 68,000 jobs in recent years — in large part due to overzealous targeting of industrial carbon dioxide emissions. Who knew, […]
28Dec

Guest Opinion: Congress Must Act Quickly to Axe Stream Rule

Via The Billings Gazette: On the way out the door, the Obama administration just threw one more regulatory punch at America’s coal miners. Just days before Christmas, the outgoing administration published its extreme stream rule in order to guarantee it will take effect the day before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. This 1,640-page […]
27Dec

Capozzola: Obama Issues Last-Minute Rule, Wants to Finish Off U.S. Coal Industry

Via Breitbart.com So President Obama has gone and done it. In a rather vindictive move, his Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) is out with a broad new “stream rule” that could potentially designate as much as two-thirds of U.S. coal reserves off-limits to mining. In fact, a study of the rule suggests that […]
26Dec

Obama’s Overreach

Via The Leader-Herald: President Barack Obama could not resist a parting shot that extended his legacy of vindictive executive overreach. When his administration released a new Stream Protection Rule on Monday, the intent was clear: one last attempted blow to coal miners and their families. In a re-working of the George W. Bush administration’s Stream […]
26Dec

Fighting for Coal

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: Members of a 24-state coalition led by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are urging President-elect Donald Trump and congressional leaders to act quickly next month in withdrawing President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, and to take necessary steps to ensure that similar or more extreme job-killing […]
25Dec

Obama Administration’s New Rule Could Eliminate Thousands of Jobs

Via The Washington Post: The Dec. 20 news article “Last-minute rule to make coal industry cleaner met with praise, criticism” missed several key points. The rule provides no discernible environmental benefits. It simply duplicates and interferes with extensive existing environmental protections at the federal and state levels and it does so in a way that […]
23Dec

Coal Country Lawmakers Ready to Fight Stream Protection Rule

Via West Virginia MetroNews: Critics of the Obama Administration’s new Stream Protection Rule believe it is a parting shot from the president to the coal industry on his way out the door of the White House. The rule is scheduled to be entered in the federal register Tuesday, and become effective January 19, one day […]