Category: Dateline Washington

by conor bernstein It has long been suspected that renewable portfolio standards are an incredibly costly and inefficient energy policy. Yet, they have grown in popularity and ambition with 29 states and the District of Columbia...

by conor bernstein How valuable is a balanced, diverse mix of energy sources? Just ask the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), the grid operator that manages the electricity grid for much of the U.S. Midwest and...

by luke popovich When you think of our industry today, imagine a spry, healthy senior — suddenly hit in a crosswalk by a drunk driver who runs a red light. The victim is now out of intensive care, regaining with the help of...

In my downtown Washington neighborhood, a sign above my friend’s parking space waxes philosophical about a chronic urban problem: Is there life after death? Park here and find out. At times over the last few years, many in the...

During the President Barack Obama administration, serving in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy was a thankless task, like being a stand-up comic in a penal colony. Clearly there is a need for comic relief,...

It was the 17th century English playwright William Congreve who claimed “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Congreve never met the renewable fuels industry.Wind and solar lobbyists reacted furiously to a proposal by...

Last month, two seemingly disparate events showed how some in the President Donald Trump administration are holding fast to promises and principles. Both events encouraged a respect for state partnership and the welfare of coal...

Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of the speech Hal Quinn (left), president and CEO of the National Mining Association, delivered at Longwall USA 2017 in June.  When I was here two years ago, we discussed the...

We interrupt our normal programing about Washington’s regulatory follies to bring you this message about an obscure federal program that was the long-overdue subject of a U.S. House of Representatives oversight hearing last...

 The President Donald Trump Administration is a peace-loving group of men and women as far as coal is concerned. First, the president himself, then his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, and finally Vice...

  Our president is accused of throwing wild punches but some of them have landed squarely on the jaws of coal’s critics. Here’s a ringside look. In just a little over a month in office, Trump, EPA administrator Pruitt and...