Coal

Oregon agency stings coal industry as it nixes key permit

Energy and Environment

Oregon agency stings coal industry as it nixes key permit

Zack Colman · August 18, 2014 10:50 pm

An Oregon state agency is expected to decide Monday whether developers can build a proposed coal export terminal, a ruling that would have broad ramifications for the coal industry's ability to tap into energy-hungry Asian markets. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Expected Oregon ruling could kill coal industry’s hopes for U.S. exports to Asia

Zack Colman · August 18, 2014 8:35 pm

In this 2014 photo is the Harding Street power plant Marion County, Ind. The Sierra Club is pushing for Indianapolis' local utility to retire an aging power plant that's left Indiana's capital as the last major Midwestern city with a coal-fired power plant within city limits that isn't being phased out. The Indianapolis' utility company had faced growing pressure to retire will be converted to cleaner-burning natural gas if state regulators endorse a revised plan the company announced Friday. (AP Photo /The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)

Indianapolis utility to convert coal plant to gas

Rick Callahan · August 15, 2014 9:06 pm

On paper, the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed power plant rule are an obvious bargain: A cost of no more than $8.8 billion, with benefits reaching between $55 billion and $93 billion by 2030. But opponents of the rules have complained that those numbers aren't exactly comparable. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Why opponents don’t like the EPA’s climate-change math

Zack Colman · August 14, 2014 9:00 am

Now Rand Paul’s support for coal, Kentucky’s black gold, is questioned

Energy and Environment

Now Rand Paul’s support for coal, Kentucky’s black gold, is questioned

Paul Bedard · August 12, 2014 7:02 pm

Coal group: No doubts about McConnell’s support

Coal group: No doubts about McConnell’s support

Adam Beam · August 8, 2014 11:20 pm

Democratic Senate challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, left, speaks with former President Bill Clinton as they are introduced at a fundraiser in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Bill Clinton, Alison Lundergan Grimes team up in Kentucky once again

Steve Doty · August 6, 2014 3:18 pm

Some of the electricity needed to support a growing, more prosperous Africa would come from fossil fuels such as natural gas, which Africa has a lot of. Some of it could be through renewable energy -- hydropower, biomass and solar -- in the form of mini-grids that can exist apart from the main electric grid. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Africa’s growing energy needs test climate change policies

Zack Colman · August 6, 2014 9:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Does Democratic Senate candidate Natalie Tennant agree with most of Obama’s policies?

Ashe Schow · August 5, 2014 6:17 pm

Text messages are a type of electronic record, like email, but some agencies don't preserve them the same way. (iStock)

EPA’s Gina McCarthy broke the law by destroying official text messages and should resign

Christopher Horner · August 5, 2014 3:35 pm

A view of the Luohuang Power Plant on February 21, 2008 in Chongqing Municipality, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

China announces move to restrict use of coal

Zack Colman · August 5, 2014 2:41 pm

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, right, visits with West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, center, and Ohio Lt. Governor Mary Taylor while attending a rally to support American energy and jobs in the coal and related industries at Highmark Stadium in downtown Pittsburgh, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The rally is being held the day before the Environmental Protection Agency conducts public hearings on its new emissions regulations for existing coal fired power plants. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Tri-state coal interests rally before hearings

Joe Mandak · July 30, 2014 7:55 pm