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21Dec

Coal in Trump’s Stocking

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Obama Administration has given Donald Trump an early Christmas gift, in the form of a punitive 11th-hour regulation on coal. Issued by the Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), the rule takes effect Jan. 19 as a classic example of the job-killing rules that Mr. […]
27Sep

Hot Air: the Overblown Benefits and Hidden Costs of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Hill: On Tuesday, the DC Court of Appeals will hear an appeal by 24 states on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, whose implementation the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted last February. Among the states’ many complaints is that implementing the plan would impose significant economic burdens while providing no tangible benefits. The EPA […]
24Jul

Foolishness Over Fossil Fuels

Via The Washington Times: The masterminds who put their heads together to “improve” the planet sometimes only bump those heads together. Environmentalists have confidently — and arrogantly — declared that their “green” policies are based on “settled science,” but evidence continues to trickle in to dispute that. On paper, saving the world is as elementary […]
11Jul

SPR is Bad News for KY Coal Miners

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 every facet of our […]
28Jun

Crippling Coal Will Cost U.S.

Via The Pittsburgh Tribune:  Much has been written to bury America’s coal industry. The overriding presumption is that coal no longer is needed, soon to be replaced by breakthroughs in renewable power. And although coal still provides 35 percent of total U.S. power generation, President Obama is pushing headlong with a fistful of policies to […]
27May

Oklahoma Attorney General Says Clean Power Plan Violates State Sovereignty

Via The Washington Examiner:  The Clean Power Plan infringes on the sovereignty of the states and stretches the imagination of what Congress intended in the Clean Air Act, Oklahoma’s attorney general told a panel Thursday. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology’s Environment Subcommittee that he believed in […]
26May

Republican AGs Slam EPA For Ignoring Supreme Court Ruling

Via The Daily Caller: The Republican attorney generals of Texas and West Virginia are demanding the Obama administration stop working on its signature global warming regulation, which they argue violates a Supreme Court order. “Their efforts and those of your agency to try to make the Power Plan a fait accompli fail to accord proper […]
06May

Coal Jobs are Vanishing Before Our Very Eyes

Via The U.S. Chamber of Commerce:  Michael Kinsley, a long-time observer of national politics, explained 30 years ago in The New Republic that “a ‘gaffe’ occurs not when a politician lies, but when he tells the truth.” In 2008 President Barack Obama, when he was running for the highest office in the land, committed one when […]
01Apr

Wyo. Governor Blasts Climate Regulations After Mass Layoffs

Via E&E Publishing:  Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) lashed out at climate regulations following an announcement yesterday that two major Powder River Basin coal companies are laying off hundreds of workers. “If they were truly concerned about global warming, if they are truly concerned about issues like regional haze, this is not the way to […]
29Mar

Why Green Energy Means No Energy

Via Forbes: Here are some basic facts about energy and human well-being. • There are 7 billion people in the world who need cheap, plentiful, reliable energy to flourish. • Some three billion have virtually no energy by our standards. Over a billion have no electricity whatsoever. • In the history of energy technology, only […]