Feature Stories
The ‘War on Coal’ Will Be Expensive
April 1, 2016
President Obama openly declared war on coal in his last State of the Union address. And it’s going to be a very, very expensive war. “Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from old, dirtier energy sources,” Obama said.
Miller Debuts His Book, ‘Miner: A Life Underground’
March 30, 2016
For three and a half decades, Thurman Miller went underground to make a living for his family, repairing machine equipment miles under Raleigh and Wyoming counties’ ground. In Miller’s fifth book, the 96-year-old digs deep into the region’s mining history
Obama Grants $500 Million to Green Climate Fund Despite Congress’s Disapproval
March 11, 2016
The Obama administration made its first installment in a $3 billion payment plan to help poor countries limit carbon emissions output, but some are calling the Monday move nothing more than a political ploy. The $500 million installment to the
Scientists Finally Admit Climate Models are Failing to Predict Global Warming
March 11, 2016
A group of scientists recently put out a new study confirming the 15-year “hiatus” in global warming. That study made headlines, but what went largely unnoticed was a major admission made by the paper’s authors: the climate models were wrong.
Coal Power Plant Retirements Surge Amid Changing Energy Industry
March 10, 2016
U.S. utilities retired power plants that generated nearly 18 gigawatts of electricity last year, with coal-fired plants taking more than 80 percent of the hit, according to an update from the Energy Information Administration on Tuesday. The loss in coal
Lawmakers Fear Obama Order Gives Feds ‘Sweeping Authority’ to Kill Energy Projects
March 1, 2016
House lawmakers are worried an executive memorandum issued by President Barack Obama last year could give bureaucrats “sweeping new statutory authority” to block energy projects that don’t align with the president’s green agenda. The House Natural Resources Committee held a
Study Finds that Nobody Cares About Climate Change in 2016 Election
February 24, 2016
Frustrated that nobody seems to care about climate change, “the country’s biggest individual political donor during the 2014 election cycle,” has pledged even more in 2016. Tom Steyer spent nearly $75 million in the 2014 midterms, reports Politico. He intends
From Coal to Computer Coding, Appalachian Coal Miners Get a Fresh Start
February 10, 2016
Today, he rolls into an office at 8 a.m., settles into a small metal desk and does something that, until last year, was completely foreign to him: computer coding. “A lot of people look at us coal miners as uneducated,”
Extracting Rare-earth Elements from Coal Could Soon Be Economical in U.S.
February 5, 2016
The U.S. could soon decrease its dependence on importing valuable rare-earth elements that are widely used in many industries, according to a team of Penn State and U.S. Department of Energy researchers who found a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way
William Perry Pendley: Obama’s Federal Coal Mining is a Throwback to Carter Administration Failings
February 2, 2016
President Obama’s plot to use the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to kill federal coal mining with a thousand paper cuts is not the first time he has used NEPA to try to end energy development. Disturbingly, his scheme is
