Coal in the News

11Jul

SPR is Bad News for Kentucky Coal Miners

Via the Louisville Courier-Journal: As most of us understand, Kentucky’s economy is powered by coal. The low-cost, reliable electricity that coal provides our commonwealth benefits every Kentuckian. Coal gives us a huge competitive advantage over other states that pay more for electricity and allows us to keep and attract good jobs. As it interconnects with […]
08Jul

EPA Reg Shutters FOUR TIMES More Coal Power Than Agency Initially Predicted

Via The Daily Caller:  The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) initial projections on coal power vastly underestimated how much coal-fired power would be shuttered by its mercury regulation, according to federal data. Actual capacity retirements from coal-fired power plants were more than four times greater than EPA initially projected. Newly-released Energy Department data shows 20 gigawatts […]
08Jul

States are Right to Worry About Clean Power Plan Costs

Via The Hill: Earlier this year, the Supreme Court issued a stay on President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” (CPP.) That was good news for the 29 states now on record as formally opposing the president’s plan to vastly transform the nation’s power grid. But those states now appear doubly justified in opposing the effort, thanks […]
07Jul

Obama’s Climate Policy Is a Hot Mess

Via The Wall Street Journal: When President Obama flew to Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, promoting their climate-change policies was near the top of the agenda. “The Paris Agreement was a turning point for our planet,” the leaders’ joint statement said, referring […]
05Jul

EPA Rule Transforming Job of Regulators — NARUC President

Via E&E Publishing: The leader of the nation’s association for state utility regulators last week said U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan could forever alter his job description — and he’s not happy with the idea. “Regardless of what you think about a regulation like that, [the Clean Power Plan] is the premier example of the […]
01Jul

Why Your Electric Bill Won’t be Going Down Soon

Via The Delco Times: You have to admire the Obama Administration’s optimism. Even though the Supreme Court issued a stay on the president’s “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) earlier this year, the EPA insists that states should keep moving forward with efforts to radically alter their power sector. It’s a bold move, since the High Court […]
30Jun

Letter: Obamas’s War on the Electric Grid

Via The Sun Journal: In 2008 President Obama stated, “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.” And under the increased onerous regulation imposed on them by the EPA, existing coal fired power plants are shutting down. The effect has also rippled through the coal […]
30Jun

NMA Condemns Administration’s False Assumptions Behind Coal Royalty Change

Washington, D.C. – While claiming action in the name of the American taxpayer, this latest assault on the coal industry is nothing more than another covert operation in the administration’s “keep it in the ground” campaign. The casualties will be an industry that has worked diligently to provide Americans with low cost, reliable energy, and […]
29Jun

Street: Clean Power Plan Hurts Virginia

Via The Roanoke Times: It’s not every day that the U.S. Supreme Court protects states from complying with a costly federal regulation. Rarer still is a state that refuses to take advantage of this ruling. In February, the high court took the unusual step of halting President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” , believing that states […]
29Jun

Editorial: Consumers Should Be Skeptical of EPA’s Pitch for ‘Clean Power’

Via The Lima News: Almost daily come reports that this could be the hottest year on record. All the more reason for President Barack Obama to beat the drum for climate change mitigation strategies. Prime among them is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, announced last year as the heat of August enveloped the […]