Coal

Energy and Environment

Feds to probe 5 aspects of West Virginia, mining oversight

Washington Examiner · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

While some important uses for natural gas are falling, without the need to power or heat large office spaces and some non-essential manufacturing facilities, demand has picked up in other places, such as in feedstock for plastics used to make key health equipment.

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Obama should lead the U.S. to energy independence

Washington Examiner · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

It's not just the coal miners who suffer from the administration's efforts to take coal out of our nation's energy mix. It's everyone connected to the industry -- from the coal transporter to the power plant worker to the small business owner down the street -- who all depend on affordable and reliable electricity to stay in business. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

‘War on coal’ is a war on coal miners

Dave Green · December 24, 2013 5:00 am

One of several warning signs line the secured at Denbury Resources Inc.'s, Tinsley Field facility in Tinsley, Miss. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Energy and Environment

To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production

Dina Cappiello · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

International Energy AgencyÃÂ Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven:ÃÂ "Radical action is needed to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, yet that radical action is disappointingly absent."ÃÂ (Rex Features via AP images)

Beltway Confidential

Apparently banning future coal plants isn’t enough to curb coal emissions

Ashe Schow · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

Sierra Club officials praised the planned closures of one-third of America's coal plants over the next decade, further promoting the "war on coal." (Jeff Swensen/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Sierra Club celebrates the ‘war on coal’

Ashe Schow · December 11, 2013 5:00 am

A new study puts a dollar amount on President Obama's "war on coal," which stands to close 207 coal plants in the next decade. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Energy prices will rise due to coal plant closures, study confirms

Ashe Schow · December 5, 2013 5:00 am

In October, members of the Southern States Energy Board approved a resolution that supported the coal industry and said they would "keep hammering" the EPA to end its perceived "war on coal." (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

States still fighting for flexibility in enforcing EPA coal regulations

Ashe Schow · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

U.S. Chamber cavalry arrives to help Mitch McConnell

Washington Secrets

U.S. Chamber cavalry arrives to help Mitch McConnell

Paul Bedard · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Behind the war on coal’s big-money networks

Behind the war on coal’s big-money networks

Ron Arnold · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

An oil sands operation in Alberta, Canada. Shutterstock.com

Energy and Environment

International Business Times: Europe to Canada: Keep (at least some of) your crude

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Proximity detectors absent in most W.Va. mines

Energy and Environment

Proximity detectors absent in most W.Va. mines

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am