Coal in the News

08Oct

SAD TESTIMONY: I’m A Coal Miner, And The EPA Killed My Job

Via The Daily Caller: A little more than a year ago, Bo Copley lost his job working as a maintenance planner for a West Virginia coal company. The reason: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, he told federal lawmakers. “Just slightly over 1 year ago, I was notified that my services were no longer required, due […]
07Oct

Guest Opinion: Court Should Limit EPA’s Power

Via The Billings Gazette: Last week, an appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard a case that will determine whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to require states to restructure the electric grid. At issue is the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which would expand the power of the federal government immensely, cost thousands of […]
06Oct

Fate of Clean Power Plan Likely Rests with Supreme Court

Via Electric Light & Power: A panel of legal experts told a Bipartisan Policy Center forum Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C., that whatever happens with the D.C. Circuit they expect the legal dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency Clean Power Plan will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The legal experts, split evenly […]
05Oct

Capito Highlights Local Impact of Anti-Coal Regulations

Via The Williamson Daily News: LOGAN, W.Va. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee’s Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee, chaired a field hearing in Southern West Virginia focused on the local impacts of EPA’s climate regulations. Senator Capito released this statement following […]
05Oct

Coal Country Gets a Chance to Testify About the Impact of Climate Policies

Via West Virgina MetroNews: A favored tactic of radical environmentalists is to characterize anyone who questions their orthodoxy as “climate change deniers,” suggesting that those who dare to raise concerns about the impact of draconian climate policies are all part of some flat earth society. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a favorite of the environmental left who […]
03Oct

Why Does Obama Want to End Coal Use?

Via The Journal: After reading that Governor Tomblin is investing $1 million to provide green jobs for former coal miners, I wonder how may workers would just prefer to keep mining coal to feed their families. Thanks largely to over regulation, coal is not allowed to compete in a fair and open marketplace with other […]
28Sep

Judges Must Understand: Climate Rules Are Irrational

Via The Daily Caller: On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments in the litigation over President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). If implemented, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation will require states to develop and bring into force plans to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions […]
28Sep

Judges Question ‘Generation Shifting,’ Congress’ Role in Clean Power Plan Hearing

Via The Morning Consult: D.C. Circuit Court judges heard arguments over the Clean Power Plan Tuesday, expressing skepticism over a key argument against the plan, but also questioning why they shouldn’t leave action on greenhouse gases to Congress. Opponents argued that the Clean Air Act calls on the EPA to regulate pollution from power sources […]
27Sep

It’s Judgment Day for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, America

Via FOX News: On Tuesday, September 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments over EPA’s massive Clean Power Plan. The hearing will be unusual for several reasons–it will be a rare initial en banchearing, meaning it will take place before nine judges instead of the typical three-judge […]