Feature Stories
A Shared History at Smuggler Mine in Aspen, Colorado
August 18, 2015
With the recent sale of the historic Smuggler Mine, there are still four friends keeping the site’s mining history alive, continuing the age-old Aspen tradition of exploring underground. Chris Preusch, Shane Stevenson, Fred Wilson and Jay Parker couldn’t be happier
Pennsylvania Examines Options for Cutting Carbon Emissions
August 12, 2015
In the days after President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency announced final rules for cutting the nation’s carbon emissions from power plants, Rob Altenburg, director of the environmental group PennFuture’s Energy Center, did a few quick calculations to determine
Shock and Dismay in Kentucky Over Clean Power Plan’s Final Rule
August 7, 2015
It is a tense time in Kentucky. The Environmental Protection Agency has just come out with its final rule on reducing carbon emissions — the strongest step ever taken to counter climate change in the United States – and this
Is the New Carbon Plan Really Just Cap and Trade for Individual States?
August 6, 2015
Republican governors who boycott the Obama administration’s new power-plant regulations may instead get an offer they can’t refuse: a cap-and-trade system many of them also oppose. Five years after Republicans in Congress shot down President Barack Obama’s plan for carbon
Three Lines of Attack Against Obama’s Climate Rule
August 5, 2015
Opponents of the Obama administration’s sweeping new standards for power plant emissions have identified three avenues of attack, as they formulate a strategy to beat back the central pillar of the president’s climate change initiative. States, industry groups and congressional
Pittsburgh Inks Deal with Department of Energy to Develop Localized Energy Plan, Pa.
July 31, 2015
The city of Pittsburgh on Friday inked a deal with the U.S. Department of Energy to embark on a plan that upends the way energy is produced and consumed locally. The plan could include at least one new heating and
Quecreek Mine Museum Gives Curiosity Seekers ‘Something’ to See
July 31, 2015
What do you do when a thousand people show up at your front door and start collecting your grass in plastic bags? Or handfuls of gravel from your driveway? Outside of Somerset, farmer Bill Arnold said he figured he could
West Virginia Coal Forum Unites Political Leadership and Industry Leaders in Bluefield, W. Va.
July 29, 2015
The Bluefield area’s business community and coal industry packed the house July 23 at a meeting of the West Virginia Coal Forum for an in-depth discussion about the future of the state’s bedrock industry. “Coal is not a four-letter word,”
Ted Boettner: Congress Must Act to Revitalize Appalachian Coal Communities
July 29, 2015
For more than a century, Appalachian coal communities have given more to the American dream and received less in return than any other region of our country. They’ve fueled our expansion westward, driven the industrial revolution, and powered our way
EPA Promises ‘Flexibility’ to States as It Prepares to Release Final Power Plan
July 29, 2015
Even after years of talk about a “war on coal,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell startled some of his constituents in March when he urged open rebellion against a White House proposal for cutting pollution from coal-fired power plants. The
