Coal in the News

22Apr

Paris Agreement Ignores Role of Clean Coal Technology in Addressing Global Warming, Energy Poverty

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn commented on today’s climate change agreement signing ceremony in New York City: “What is missing from the administration’s celebratory rhetoric surrounding the Paris agreement is that its own plan for addressing global warming – aside from being stopped by the Supreme Court for its questionable legality […]
21Apr

Daines to EPA: Your Regulations are Killing Montana Jobs

Senator Steve Daines today took Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) Gina McCarthy to task on the EPA’s Power Plan all-fronts assault on affordable energy and good-paying union and tribal jobs. During today’s Senate Committee on Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Daines challenged McCarthy to quantify the impacts of the anti-energy regulations […]
21Apr

VA Lawmakers Block Funding for Climate Rule Compliance

Via E&E Publishing:  Virginia’s General Assembly yesterday blocked funding for the state environment agency to work on ways of fulfilling a federal mandate to cut greenhouse gas emissions. In a move decried by environmental groups, the Virginia House of Delegates yesterday pushed forward language in the state budget stating that the Department of Environmental Quality […]
20Apr

Arizona Regulators Should Stop Preparations for the Clean Power Plan

Via The East Valley Tribune: In one of his last official acts before his untimely death in February, Justice Scalia joined the Supreme Court’s other four conservative justices in issuing a virtually unprecedented stay of the Obama Administration’s so-called “Clean Power Plan.” The stay effectively puts the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) implementation of the burdensome […]
19Apr

EPA Budget Still Seeks Funding for Clean Power Plan

Via West Virginia MetroNews: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy took fire and praise from members of the U.S. Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee Tuesday. The committee heard from McCarthy and quizzed her on the EPA’s budget request for the 2016-17 fiscal year. At the center of much of the […]
19Apr

‘Scrubbers’ Muddy Claim of ‘Dirty Coal’

Via OneNewsNow.com:  One of the biggest arguments against the coal industry involves how “dirty” coal is but one critic of that argument calls it a myth. Sierra Club is one of the biggest critics of the coal industry, saying it contributes to everything from climate disruption – or climate change – to toxic water pollution […]
18Apr

5 Charts Show the High Job Costs of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via The U.S. Chamber of Commerce:  Because of previous EPA regulation, states in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic have witnessed thousands of coal-related jobs cut. “Combine coal extraction losses with coal generation declines nationwide and the coal industry has lost more than 47,500 jobs already, with the promise of more to come by 2030,” Sam Batkins of […]
18Apr

EPA is Downplaying Sweeping Rule — Challengers

Via E&E Publishing: Opponents of the Clean Power Plan are swatting back at U.S. EPA in court, deriding the agency’s defense of the rule as an attempt to understate its “radical” approach to power plant regulation. In briefs filed Friday, the massive coalition of challengers — states, utilities, coal companies and others — renewed previous […]
14Apr

Purposeful Job Destruction

Via Steamboat Today: This past March 13, the front-running Democrat Party presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, made the following statement: “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” This statement was the final, outright admission of what she and President Obama have been trying to achieve for years. On […]
14Apr

Europe’s Energy Crisis Poses Warning for the U.S.

Via Real Clear Energy: Europe has a problem that may soon become ours. Countries like Germany, Spain, and England are finding that their recent “green energy” experiments are proving too costly to continue. Between 2005—when the European Union adopted its emissions trading scheme—and 2014, residential electricity rates in the EU increased by an average of […]