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  • China's June coal output rises to six-month high on summer demand

    07/18/2024 7:12:22 AM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 14, 2024 | Colleen Howe;
    China's coal output rose to a six-month high in June, statistics bureau data showed on Monday, as mines ramped up production to meet seasonal demand ... The world's largest coal producer mined 405.38 million metric tons of the fuel last month, a 3.6% increase on the year and the highest since December ... Output will continue rising in the third quarter ... Output in the January-June period was 2.27 billion tons
  • Wind energy is on a tear and has beaten coal for two months straight: Wind has now generated 28% more electricity than coal

    07/09/2024 5:04:32 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 87 replies
    Sherwood ^ | 07/09/2024 | Rani Molla
    Wind is quietly blowing away coal, when it comes to supplying electricity in the US.In April, wind power generated more electricity than coal for the second month in a row, according to the latest available data from the Energy Information Administration. Wind briefly surpassed coal once before in April last year, but this time it’s by a much larger margin and for two consecutive months. Renewable energy production has been ticking up for years but only recently have fuels like wind and solar approached the ballpark of fossil fuels and nuclear power. Last year renewables made up 21% of electricity...
  • Biden’s war on fossil fuels hits Wyoming hard, but now the Cowboy State is fighting back

    06/23/2024 3:05:50 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    Just the News ^ | June 22, 2024 9:57pm | Kevin Killough
    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been chipping away at the oil, gas and coal industries ever since President Joe Biden took office. Wyoming is an energy state that produces half the nation’s coal, as well as part of its oil and gas output. Since the federal government owns nearly half the state’s land, virtually all oil, gas and coal operations in the Cowboy State are heavily impacted by every rule the BLM throws at fossil fuels. Although the Biden administration is waging war on fossil fuels, Wyoming is fighting back. The state, along with Utah, filed a lawsuit...
  • DOWN WITH COAL?

    05/21/2024 4:57:28 PM PDT · by Signalman · 8 replies
    Power Line ^ | 5/21/2024 | John Hinderaker
    The Biden Administration is determined to limit America’s production of fossil fuels, of which we have the largest supply in the world. This will transition us from a position of energy independence, and potentially energy dominance, into a position of subservience to the Chinese Communist Party, on which we will depend for the vast quantities of materials that are needed for wind turbines, solar panels and batteries–which we will not be allowed to mine here. If this plan isn’t outright treasonous, it is possibly the stupidest program ever carried out by a government in world history. The stated rationale for...
  • Gordon: BLM proposal part of Biden’s war on energy

    05/20/2024 7:33:14 PM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    Fence Post ^ | May 17, 2024 | Rachel Gabel
    Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon said the latest Bureau of Land Management proposal is the agency’s determination that coal leasing in the Powder River Basin will not be permitted past 2041. The BLM’s final supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) and proposed amendment to its Buffalo Field Office land use plan selects the “no leasing” alternative in the Buffalo Coal Resource Management Plan Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. Release of the final SEIS and proposed amendment opens a 30-day public protest period. Gordon said the decision is part of Biden’s “partisan, vindictive, and politically motivated war on America’s abundant, cheap, efficient, and consistent...
  • Don't Listen to the Libs: America Has up to 485 Years of Fuel Remaining, According to New Report

    05/13/2024 7:25:17 PM PDT · by bitt · 36 replies
    https://www.westernjournal.com/ ^ | 5/13/2024 | Mike Landry
    When are we going to run out of energy? You don’t hear that as much as you used to, since Those Who Know Best are working to plug up all our energy sources anyway. Most energy sources put out carbon dioxide, and that’s going to make all the plants grow and devour us all, or it will heat the planet up and make Minneapolis a desert — and we’ll all fry. Or something. But we don’t hear much any more about running out of energy. What do the experts say about it? “According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA)...
  • BREAKING: G7 Countries Including United States Reach Agreement to Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2035

    04/29/2024 9:07:41 PM PDT · by bitt · 106 replies
    Democrat Climate Change Cult: Ban Everything! Ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations have agreed to eliminate all coal-fired power plants by 2035. The countries that are members of the Group of Seven (G7) are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the European Union. This declaration was made by Andrew Bowie, a UK minister at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, during an interview in Turing, Italy. “We do have an agreement to phase out coal in the first half of the 2030s,” Bowie said. “This is, by...
  • The Biden EPA’s Plan to Ration Electricity. New rules are designed to eliminate fossil-fuel power plants. Energy scarcity is sure to result.

    04/27/2024 3:53:53 AM PDT · by karpov · 120 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 26, 2024 | WSJ Editorial Board
    The Biden Administration’s regulations are coming so fast and furious that it’s hard even to keep track, but we’re trying. On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency proposed its latest doozy—rules that will effectively force coal plants to shut down while banning new natural-gas plants. “With the announcement today, the power sector can make planning decisions with a full array of information,” EPA’s press release declares. Translation: Get moving with the green-energy transition because we’re determined to eliminate fossil-fuel power. Barack Obama’s regulation spurred a wave of coal plant closures. Now President Biden is trying to finish the job by tightening...
  • New Biden admin rule seeks to eradicate American coal-fired power plants by 2039

    04/26/2024 1:52:02 PM PDT · by Twotone · 13 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | April 25, 2024 | Jarryd Jaeger
    On Thursday, Biden's Environmental Protection Agency announced a new set of rules aimed at reducing pollution from natural gas and coal-fired power plants by 90 percent by 2039. About 42,000 Americans work in the coal industry. Under the regulations, the nation's 200 or so coal-fired power plants will be forced to abide by strict new emissions standards unless they stop burning coal within ten years, in which case they will be allowed to follow the less stringent existing standards. According to the rules, a "new compliance path" for coal-fired power plants means they "will be able to continue meeting existing...
  • New Biden climate rules could shutter remaining American coal plants

    04/26/2024 9:01:24 AM PDT · by packagingguy · 81 replies
    The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | April 26, 2024 | Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport
    The Biden administration on Thursday placed the final cornerstone of its plan to tackle climate change: a regulation that would force the nation’s coal-fired power plants to virtually eliminate the planet-warming pollution they release into the air or shut down. The regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90% of their greenhouse pollution by 2039, one year earlier than the agency had initially proposed. The compressed timeline was welcomed by climate activists but condemned by coal executives who said the new standards would be impossible to meet... Taken together, the regulations could...
  • White House: We’re Not Trying to Harm Coal, We’re Trying to ‘Speed Up’ to Economy that Has ‘Less Pollution’

    04/26/2024 6:39:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/26/2024 | IAN HANCHETT
    On Thursday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi denied that the Biden administration is attempting to shut down the coal industry or slow any industry down, and stated that the issue is “about how do we speed up to a stronger economy, a more durable economy, and one that, frankly, puts less pollution into the sky?” Host Connell McShane asked, “[C]oal executives, for the most part, are coming out and saying this — we can’t meet this. So, the real goal here is to kind of shut our industry down. Is that what’s happening?” Zaidi...
  • National Security Implications of Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe

    04/19/2024 7:01:27 PM PDT · by george76 · 6 replies
    Real Clear Investigations ^ | April 18, 2024 | Rob Maness
    The Port of Baltimore is “closed until further notice” following the Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy, sending several industries into disarray and jeopardizing national security. In 2023, the port handled a record amount of international cargo, ranked ninth for both dollar value and tonnage in the United States. Vital for both imports and exports of a variety of commodities, the Port of Baltimore has always had international significance and the impact of its closure will be wide-ranging and long-term for the supply chain in the United States and beyond. Given the seriousness of this issue, Congress must come together to...
  • The University of Tennessee Uses Our Taxes to Advocate Radical Energy Agenda. I Took Them to Court!

    04/16/2024 3:29:50 PM PDT · by Twotone · 4 replies
    American Policy Center ^ | Unknown | Kathleen Marquardt
    Over four years ago, someone sent me a November 2019 Huffington Post article titled “Coal Knew, Too” by Élan Young, a writer for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of (UTK). The story, remarkably, also promptly appeared in Mother Jones, the UK’s Daily Mail, and even in an article from the Kent Law School. We were told that the Department head, Chris Cherry, “accidentally discovered what is, so far, the earliest known evidence of the coal industry acknowledging its awareness of the impending climate crisis”. The supposed “confession”, which fit nicely into an ongoing activist litigation...
  • New England's last coal plants set to shutter, ushering in era of green energy.

    04/06/2024 5:11:56 AM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 130 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4.06.2024 | Thomas Catenacci
    The final coal-fired power plants in New England are slated to shutter in the coming years, making it the second region to phase out the energy source that powered the U.S. economy for decades.
  • Poland Set to End Coal-Fired Power Generation

    04/02/2024 11:12:34 AM PDT · by Reverend Wright · 31 replies
    PowerMag ^ | Jan 15, 2024 | Darrel Proctor
    Poland’s top climate official said the country is preparing to set a date for a complete phase-out of coal-fired power generation, just months after the nation elected a new government that has pledged to support environmental policies of the European Union (EU). ... Poland, which currently receives about 70% of its electricity from burning coal, and has long been Europe’s largest producer of the fuel, has been slowly increasing its use of solar and wind power. ... Urszula Zielinska, the country’s Secretary of State for Climate, during a meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Jan. 15, said, “Only with an end...
  • Ramaco's Rare Earths Deposit In Northeast Wyoming Estimated Worth At $37 Billion

    03/28/2024 7:39:56 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | March 26, 2024 | Pat Maio
    Ramaco Resources in northeast Wyoming plans to update its rare earths deposit find Wednesday, pushing the estimate on tonnage underground to over 1.5 million tons, and the value to more than $37 billion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ramaco's coal mine in northern Wyoming is revealing potential to be a huge rare earths deposit. The company has assets all over the country, like this mine in the Eastern U.S. (Courtesy Ramaco) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ramaco Resources Inc. in northeast Wyoming plans to update its rare earths deposit find in the Cowboy State on Wednesday, pushing the estimate on tonnage underground to more than 1.5 million tons,...
  • Iconic NYC pizzeria out of hundreds of thousands of dollars due to oven ban

    03/25/2024 12:11:39 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 26 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 3/17/24 | Fox Business
    John's of Bleecker Street general manager Kevin Jackson details changes the pizzeria must make to comply with new green energy regulations. #FOXBusiness
  • The Weekly Planet: The Secret Political Power of Fossil Fuels

    03/12/2024 8:57:29 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 6 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | 10/27/20 | Robinson Meyer
    Coal and fracking don’t work like other declining industries, and that matters for Democrats. A decade ago, the American coal industry began to die. From 2011 to 2016, more than 39,000 jobs eroded away. At a scientific conference last year, I met a group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who were curious about how this had affected American politics and, most pointedly, Donald Trump’s razor-thin victory in Rust Belt statesp>
  • Disadvantages of Coal: 10 Reasons Why Coal is Terrible for the Environment

    03/12/2024 6:36:31 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 27 replies
    Green Coast ^ | 2/10/21 | Lisa Martin
    SNIP 2. Coal is actually radioactive Coal contains uranium and thorium, which are both radioactive elements. In coal’s natural form, they are not an issue as they occur in such trace quantities. However, when coal is burned, these radioactive components can concentrate to up to 10 times their original levels in some of its by-products, such as fly ash. Fly ash is produced by coal-based power plants and carries 100 times more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear power plant that produces an equivalent amount of energy. People who live in the so-called “stack shadow”, or between half...
  • EXPLAINER: Why quitting coal is so hard

    03/12/2024 1:12:46 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 38 replies
    AP ^ | 11/13/21 | Karl Ritter
    GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history. TThat turned out to be easier said that done. Even saying it — in writing — became quite a challenge. Government negotiators in Glasgow wrote and rewrote a paragraph that spells out that fighting climate change requires the world to end coal power, along with fossil fuel subsidies. The wording on coal was weakened one last time just before the gavel came down after coal-dependent India insisted on replacing the...