Coal in the News

28Jul

Via The Morning Consult: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are miles apart on the greenhouse gas-cutting Clean Power Plan. She’s for it. He’s against it. No matter the polarized rhetoric, the plan’s future is much more convoluted than “live or die,” in part because its fate lies in the hands of the courts. Outside observers […]
27Jul

Raising Coal Leases Would Cost, County Says

Via The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel:  Boosting the price of coal mined from beneath public lands will result in mine closures and worsening damage to rural economies, Mesa County officials told a federal agency. The federal coal leasing program provides an “adequate return to the public,” the county said in a letter to the Bureau […]
26Jul

Study: Wind & Solar up to 5X More Costly than Existing Coal and Nuclear

Via The Institute for Energy Research:  A new study from the Institute for Energy Research finds that electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power. This innovative study relies on data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory […]
25Jul

The Platform Is Right: Coal Is Clean

Via National Review:  Some in the media are alarmed that the just-approved Republican-party platform takes a positive view of fossil fuels. “The platform tosses aside an environmental regulatory structure built on congressional legislation and judicial rulings over more than four decades,” wrote Steven Mufson of the Washington Post. It’s no surprise that mainstream media and […]
19Jul

Ohio Coal Industry Crushed

Via the Mansfield News Journal: For decades, Ohio has proudly mined the coal that fuels America. Coal still generates more than a third of U.S. electricity — more than any other single power source last year — and provides thousands of good jobs for states like Ohio. Unfortunately, Ohio’s coal industry is now facing an […]
18Jul

Aimless Agency Crushes Wyoming’s Coal Industry

Via the Casper Star-Tribune: For decades, Wyoming has proudly mined the coal that fuels America. Coal still generates more than a third of U.S. electricity – more than any other single power source last year – and provides thousands of good jobs for states like Wyoming. Unfortunately, Wyoming’s coal industry is now facing an all-out […]
15Jul

Emerging Technology-based Consensus May Help Clear the Air

Via The Hill: Is it possible in this contentious political year that there may be some energy and environment policies on which Republicans, Democrats, environmental groups and a major coal producer like Cloud Peak Energy can agree? Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have acknowledged that affordable fossil energy will be part of our energy […]
14Jul

OP-ED: Wyoming Coal Industry Crushed by SPR Rule

Via The Cody Enterprise: For decades, Wyoming has proudly mined the coal that fuels America. Coal still generates more than a third of U.S. electricity – more than any other single power source last year – and provides thousands of good jobs for states like Wyoming. Unfortunately, Wyoming’s coal industry is now facing an all-out […]
12Jul

Clean Power Plan Would Devastate the Trades

Via The Mesabi Daily News: Over the course of the past many months, we have watched the developments of the MPCA regarding the clean power plan. Our organization has evolved into a highly specialized trade craft that mainly works in the fossil fuel industry. The Clean Power Plan, as written, will decimate our industry, period. […]
12Jul

Lost Production Equals Lost Employment from the Clean Power Plan

July 13, 2016 The administration has long blamed coal’s troubles on the marketplace, not on its regulations. In congressional hearings, all the president’s men and women discount the impact of the Clean Power Plan on jobs, coal communities and the grid – even as they claim credit for regulating coal out of the grid when […]