
DOE Report: King Coal Saved Northeast U.S. During Winter Bomb Cyclone
The “Bomb Cyclone” which ravaged the Northeast U.S. this winter would have been much, much more damaging if it hadn’t been for coal-fired power.
The “Bomb Cyclone” which ravaged the Northeast U.S. this winter would have been much, much more damaging if it hadn’t been for coal-fired power.
Israel’s energy minister said this week that the country aims to eliminate the use of coal, gasoline and diesel fuel by 2030.
George Soros spent $160 million investing in fossil fuel companies in the final quarter of last year alone.
A new report to the U.N. Security Council by independent monitors found North Korea earned nearly $200 million in 2017 by violating sanctions to export banned commodities, including coal shipped to ports in Russia and China, and weapons sold to customers in Syria and Myanmar.
A Reuters exclusive on Thursday quoted three sources inside Western European intelligence agencies who said North Korea shipped coal to Russia in 2017 in a probable violation of U.N. sanctions.
U.S. officials say they have satellite photographs showing Chinese cargo ships loading North Korean coal in defiance of U.N. sanctions, beginning just days after the sanctions were imposed.
China most definitely had some work to do at improving air quality, with the ashtray skies of major cities having become a constant source of both embarrassment and illness, but the authoritarian government found it necessary to reverse a recent ban on coal because the peasants were freezing.
The U.N. Security Council issued a worldwide port ban on Monday against four ships said to have carried prohibited North Korean cargo in defiance of sanctions. According to U.N. panel coordinator Hugh Griffiths, “this is the first time in U.N. history” that such an all-ports ban has been issued.
A government report on the nation’s power infrastructure “whitewashes” the crushing effects of government regulation on the coal industry, according to the Heartland Institute.
The Department of Interior, under Secretary Ryan Zinke, has announced the current federal mineral valuation rule is being repealed “to create more workable oil, gas and mineral valuation regulations and avoid costly litigation.”
Gov. Jim Justice (D-WV), a Democrat in a deep red-state, will reportedly switch his party affiliation Thursday at a rally with President Trump — the latest coup for a president who has managed to reach into traditionally Democratic constituencies.
Donald Trump’s U.S.A. is winning the global energy war by rejecting climate change nonsense and unapologetically embracing fossil fuels.
Last month, HBO funnyman John Oliver spent an episode of his show “Last Week Tonight” delivering a profanity-laced rant demonizing coal, coal-energy advocates, and presidents of the United States who don coal-miner hard-hats. He did so following the formula that Jon Stewart has used so successfully throughout his career: Be witty and quote a lot of apparent facts in order to back up your satirically-expressed opinion about any issue and hope your audience will accept you as an expert.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) – the miracle technology which will supposedly allow us to burn more coal while saving the planet from global warming – is a complete waste of time and energy.
President Donald Trump celebrated the opening of a new coal mine in Pennsylvania, sending a recorded video to miners for the ceremony.
President Donald Trump gave a shout-out to the “forgotten” industrial heartland that delivered him the White House as he announced America’s unilateral withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords Thursday.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a Democratic U.S. Senator from the heart of coal country in West Virginia, told Breitbart News exclusively that he was shocked and disappointed in White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn’s anti-coal comments in Europe this week.
Remember when liberals said there was NO WAY Donald Trump could or would ever revive the coal industry?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wrote an op-ed for the KyForward website published on Sunday, praising President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders to roll back regulations the Barack Obama administration put is place in the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) regulation and the Clean Power Plan.
TEL AVIV – A 267-kilogram shipment of cocaine hidden in bags of coal and bound for Israel was intercepted by Spanish authorities on Tuesday.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday about several topics, including Trump’s position on coal, his rally in West Virginia, the hyper-partisan state of play in American politics today, as well as the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin III praised President Donald Trump’s reversal Tuesday of President Barack Obama’s “Clean Power Plan,” which created a regulatory regime that targeted the coal mining industry and coal-fired energy plants.
Former President Barack Obama’s efforts to shut down the coal industry in the United States have threatened the well-being of generations of coal plant and mine workers, including those of the Navajo Nation.
One day after the American Health Care Act (AHCA) vote was canceled for a second time, Vice President Mike Pence told West Virginians at Foster Supply Company in Charleston that 100 percent of House Democrats and a handful of Republicans were to blame for standing in the way of President Trump’s health care bill, but a report has surfaced that in the final days before passage of the bill, Pence pushed to label the bill “Ryancare.”
While President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts just $2.6 billion from the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, the benefits for the American economy will likely be much larger.
Over the course of last week’s Pac-12 basketball tournament, ESPN analyst and NBA Hall of Fame member Bill Walton crushed the coal industry during live broadcasts. While calling the games, Walton hammered fellow ESPN announcer Dave Pasch over his love of
BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union must close all 315 of its coal-fired power plants by 2030 in order to meet its commitments under the Paris climate agreement, a research institute said Thursday.
President Trump has wasted no time at all in pressing the reset button on US energy policy.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that “Democrats in Washington don’t really speak for” rural Americans, and that the party needs a chair from a rural coal state. Manchin criticized President Obama’s coal policy
Contents: Mongolia in economic crisis asks the IMF for a bailout; Mongolia signs new mining deal with Rio Tinto for future growth
Speaking to a crowd on a rainy evening in Williamsburg, Virginia, GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence assured Virginians that if they choose Donald Trump as the next president they will be hiring a fighter who will make economic rejuvenation
As Donald Trump met with coal miners in Virginia on Wednesday, his campaign released a video attacking Hillary Clinton’s promise “to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Donald Trump has an “An America First Energy Plan.” In it, he calls for “American energy dominance,” which he sees as a strategic, economic, and foreign policy goal.
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to ban the storage, handling and export of coal from a new port terminal. The council did so despite the prospect of 1,000 construction jobs, and 120 permanent jobs, at the terminal site.
Presumed Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of more than 12,000 people in West Virginia at the Charleston Civic Center on Thursday night. It was his first campaign rally since being declared the presumed Republican nominee after winning
The West Virginia Coal Association, a trade association that represents roughly 95 percent of West Virginia’s coal production, endorsed Donald Trump for president on Thursday, five days ahead of the state GOP primary on May 10th.
Last month, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” On Monday, an emotional unemployed coal miner by the name of Bo Copley confronted Clinton on her promise, asking
Alarmists have airbrushed a top female scientist out of ‘women in climate’ history because she has taken the ‘wrong’ side on global warming. Dr Judith Curry, is professor and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at
Hillary Clinton supporter former Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) said that Hillary’s declaration that her coal plan would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” was “a dumb way to put it” and the odds that
HBO host Bill Maher argued Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “should be popular” for her coal plan, which she admitted would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” on Friday’s “Real
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday afternoon, where the real estate mogul was interrupted at least four times by protesters but said he thinks he will do well tonight.
While campaigning in August 2008, President Obama called for one million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (EV) on the road by 2015.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher declared President Obama “has been fighting a war on coal” on Friday. Maher said, “he’s [Obama] been denying that there’s a war on coal, but he has been fighting a war on coal. He’s
During Obama’s last State of the Union address on January 12, he described “conventional power”–oil, coal, etc.–as “dirty energy” that must be replaced by wind and sun power.
Nearly 400 Stanford students planned an “indefinite” sit-in while singing, chanting and joining hands outside the administration building Monday and Tuesday, calling on university President John Hennessy and the board of trustees to divest Stanford from all fossil fuel companies.