Coal in the News

16Mar

Clean Power Plan Not Good for Colorado

Via The Journal-Advocate: The Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, are set on a destructive path in their quest for clean power. Determined to blaze a legacy trail for President Obama, EPA and CDPHE don’t care who gets harmed in the process of implementing the Clean Power Plan. […]
16Mar

Discontinue a Costly Plan Already Halted by the Supreme Court

Via The Marshfield Mail:  Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP.) The Court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs of the plan until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh […]
15Mar

Gov. Matt Mead: “Double Down” on Coal

Via The Wyoming Tribune Eagle: Gov. Matt Mead unveiled an updated state energy strategy Monday that seeks to “double down” on the state’s commitment to coal while also growing the state’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. “I recognize that renewables have an important role now and they will have a greater role later,” Mead said during […]
15Mar

GOP, Industry Backlash After Clinton’s Coal Comments

Via The Hill:  Republicans and the coal industry are lashing out at Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential hopeful’s prediction that her policies would put many coal companies and miners out of business. Clinton made the comment Sunday at a CNN town hall event while promoting her plans to help coal communities recover from the […]
15Mar

Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Destroy Navajo Nation Jobs

Via The Daily Signal: The federal government and their allies are choosing dubious environmental prescriptions to effectively impose a new tax on electricity increasing the costs of energy on all Americans and businesses. These added costs will especially impact middle and low income families, and those seniors on fixed incomes. When running for office in […]
14Mar

NMA Remarks on Clinton’s Condemnation of America’s Coal Communities

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn today criticized Hillary Clinton’s reported remarks on the nation’s coal miners in Ohio yesterday: “It is surpassing strange and deeply troubling to hear prominent presidential candidates boast of their determination in office to destroy the livelihoods of tens of thousands of hard-working Americans. Hillary Clinton’s assertion […]
14Mar

State Environmental Officials Say Obama’s EPA Has Overstepped Its Authority

Via The Daily Signal: The Environmental Protection Agency has overstepped its legal authority by imposing a regulatory agenda on the states, environmental officials at the state level testified Wednesday to a Senate committee. Randy Huffman, cabinet secretary at the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, testified that the EPA’s flood of environmental regulations since President […]
12Mar

Coal Industry Burned by Crippling Regulations

Via Fox Business:  For decades, coal has been stoking the nation, but regulation over the past seven years has dealt a huge blow to the industry, spawning big job losses and bankruptcies. The FOX Business Network’s Jeff Flock spoke with coal miners from 200 feet beneath the surface at the Rosebud Mining Company’s Tusky Mine, […]
10Mar

New Mexico Should Reject Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’

Via The Albuquerque Journal: Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive “Clean Power Plan.” The Court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs imposed by the plan until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh […]
09Mar

Why is Arizona Complying with a Costly Plan Already Halted by the Supreme Court?

Via Willcox Range News:  Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP.)  The Court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs of the plan until a federal court determines its legality.  The ruling produced a huge sigh of […]