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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreDuring 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,...
Read MoreIt 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...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreEditor’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 twin...
Read MoreWe 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreOur 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...
Read MoreBy the time you read this, the Sierra Club will have twice been reminded of former President Barack Obama’s boast that “elections have consequences.” The Senate will have confirmed Scott Pruitt’s nomination as Environmental...
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“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” said Wordsworth after the French king was deposed. In the wee hours of November 9, in coal communities across the country, many miners would have felt it if they didn’t recite it.
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