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Sierra Club whines that clean coal costs too much?!

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity presents an even gloomier future for coal than the EIA projects. They predict that more than 280 coal-fired generating units are set to be shut down, partly due to stricter EPA regulations. And according to a report released by the National Economic Research Associates, seven new EPA regulations are expected to cost the electrical sector $16.7 billion per year, cause 887,000 job losses annually, and eliminate 69 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity.

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Larry Bell

|2013-10-17T11:48:39-04:00June 14th, 2013|3 Comments

Rich Greens killing jobs for ordinary Americans

The American economy has some basic problems. We need more well-paid jobs, increased revenue, and our trade balance is out of whack. Each of these issues could be easily addressed, but environmentalists are doing everything they can to kill potential solutions.

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Marita Noon

|2013-07-09T12:29:38-04:00May 7th, 2013|Comments Off

Britain narrowly escapes winter blackouts

For years, many have warned of the energy havoc that could be wrought by global warming hysteria. Great Britain barely avoided such chaos this past winter when one million homes narrowly escaped a blackout during Britain’s 5th harsh winter in a row.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-04-10T18:18:12-04:00April 15th, 2013|Comments Off

Study says coal burning to “cool” planet

As everyone knows, emissions from the burning of coal are contributing to a warming of the planet, right? Well, that’s been the message of global warming proponents for some time, but it appears this message is starting to change now that there’s been little observable temperature increase in nearly 10 years.

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Craig Rucker

|2013-04-09T17:17:55-04:00April 3rd, 2013|Comments Off

Fossil fuels: Helping mankind “Live long and prosper”

Do fossil fuels like coal and oil harm your health? Well many environmentalists would have you believe so, but Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, offers a different perspective...

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Craig Rucker

|2013-03-07T19:21:45-05:00March 7th, 2013|2 Comments

Chinese air episode exposes EPA fraud on PM 2.5 levels

EPA claims that fine particulate matter at levels above 12 micrograms per cubic meter kills people within hours and causes a quarter of all U.S. deaths, but during a recent episode in China when fine PM levels were 89 times higher than the EPA standard, the only deaths attributed to the episode were from traffic accidents due to poor visibility. EPA is using this fraud to shut down coal power plants, creating higher energy costs that really do cause premature deaths among America's poor.

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Steve Milloy

|2013-01-24T16:04:08-05:00January 22nd, 2013|Comments Off

Playing give and take with coal

If coal is good for the Navajo Nation, the Crow Tribe, and other Native Americans, then it should be okay for the rest of us. Coal warms our homes and provides good jobs and does not need billion-dollar subsidies just to try to break even.

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Duggan Flanakin

|2013-01-17T18:23:53-05:00January 17th, 2013|Comments Off

The next environmental battlegrounds

When American voters reelected President Obama, they also returned his EPA, Interior and Energy Departments, and wide-ranging agenda for “fundamentally transforming” our nation. This will mean not only cementing Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, higher taxes, and rampant spending. It will also bring more disputes over energy and environmental regulations, the vanguard of Mr. Obama’s determined campaign to eliminate hydrocarbons that power our economy and embrace more “green” energy. The conflict will be fought primarily on six battlegrounds.

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Paul Driessen

|2012-11-16T16:47:21-05:00November 9th, 2012|7 Comments

Feds block VA airport modernization, claim project a “coal mine”

A plan to revitalize a poverty-stricken corner of rural southwestern Virginia by upgrading a local airport has stalled, because officials say the runway-extension project is a coal mine.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2012-11-02T15:09:22-04:00November 3rd, 2012|2 Comments

Will the election continue to give our fossil energy industries a Big Bird?

There’s a lot more at stake for America on November 6th than Sesame Street or free contraceptives for female grad students. Like, for example, whether or not anti-carbon regulatory obstructionism based upon flawed science and crony politics will continue to escalate energy costs, kill jobs, and sabotage success-proven free market competition.

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Larry Bell

|2012-10-26T15:54:58-04:00October 26th, 2012|Comments Off

500 years of American coal

Coal has powered America for decades, but is it time to move on? Nicolas Loris at the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Economic Policy Studies says “no,” and here explains why: “There is enough coal in America to provide cheap, reliable electricity for 500 years at current consumption rates.

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CFACT

|2012-11-29T16:37:03-05:00October 24th, 2012|Comments Off

Obama vs. Romney on coal

President Obama said, "We have seen increases in coal production and employment" during his term. Governor Romney retorted that, "I was in coal country. People grabbed my arms and said, 'Please save my job.' The head of the EPA said, 'You can’t build a coal plant. You’ll virtually -- it’s virtually impossible given our regulations.'

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Duggan Flanakin

|2012-10-25T08:36:33-04:00October 24th, 2012|3 Comments

Georgia needs Plant Washington’s affordable energy

By Jeff EdgensPlant Washington is a planned 850-MW base-load, 24/7 facility capable of generating 6.7 billion kWh of electricity a year; it will use a mixture of pulverized low-sulfur Powder River Basin and Illinois basin coal and will be one of the cleanest, most efficient coal plants in the nation. Like all energy projects today, Plant Washington is under attack. Its supporters are fighting back. This article was originally published in the The Marietta Daily Journal. The recent op-ed from a Cobb EMC member questioning the need for Plant Washington demonstrates a surprising misunderstanding of energy markets from someone who worked in the industry [...]

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|2012-10-25T11:25:05-04:00January 20th, 2012|Comments Off

Coal-based fuel to solve America’s energy dilemma?

For those upset about today's high gas prices, or that our nation imports its oil from overseas, there now comes hope that new technologies will help us become more energy independent.

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|2012-10-31T15:01:14-04:00January 13th, 2009|Comments Off

Stayin’ Alive with underwater strobes

If you heard that underwater strobe lights were being installed somewhere in Alabama, you might think it was for some new high-tech kind of disco. But actually, these strobe lights are being placed near the intake pipes of a coal-fired power plant, and are being tested as a new way to save fish from being trapped and killed.

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|2013-03-11T12:13:46-04:00March 5th, 2007|Comments Off