EPA’s Jackson Leaves Legacy of Higher Costs, Less Consumer Choice
Lisa Jackson will retire from her position as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this month as the most prolific regulator of her class… Read More
Obama Continues to Skin the Cat with More Coal Closures
The skin continues to come off the cat. President Obama’s wish of a cap-and-trade plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would have bankrupted the coal… Read More
U.S. Shed 9,000 Mining, Energy Jobs in October, 17,000 Since May
Buried in Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the country’s unemployment situation was this disheartening fact: 9,000 employees of the mining and resource extraction… Read More
Installing Windmills Doesn’t Make the Wind Blow
A tweet from the Department of Energy (DOE) gives a link to a DOE webpage highlighting a graph from, and giving a link to, a… Read More
Obama Campaign Quietly Adds ‘Clean Coal’ to Energy Policy Website
After coming under fire for its consistent hostility to the coal industry, the Obama campaign quietly adjusted its energy policy website to include “clean coal”… Read More
The Human Consequences of EPA’s War on Coal
There are very real consequences to the Environmental Protection Agency’s continued efforts to undermine America’s coal industry. Those consequences were recently spotlighted in an industry-produced… Read More
EPA CO2 Regulation Effectively Bans New Coal Facilities
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new rule to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants, which would effectively ban new coal power plants, as… Read More
Markey’s Misguided View of Energy Exports
Last week, Representative Ed Markey (D–CA) sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu questioning whether exporting natural gas would benefit American businesses and… Read More
Texas Coal Company Announces 500 Layoffs, Sues to Block EPA Regulation
It was sadly ironic that Texas energy company Luminant announced it would lay off 500 employees on the same morning that President Obama unveiled legislation… Read More
Industry Group Hits Back at Anti-Coal Rhetoric From Bloomberg, Sierra Club
In a Wednesday column, the president of a major coal industry group defended coal energy against recent attacks from the environmentalist left. The current drive… Read More
