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FirstEnergy Emergency Request Could Be A Last Chance To Help Coal Power
Ohio-based utility FirstEnergy Solutions made waves last month when it asked the Department of Energy to grant it an emergency order to help keep coal and nuclear plants operating across… Read More
Fracking Waste Disposal: Still A Hot Mess
The slogan for Estill County is “where the bluegrass kisses the mountains.” But since 2015 the county, population 15,000, is widely known as the place where radioactive material generated by the… Read More
Change Of Mined: Study Highlights Appalachia’s Tough Task Ahead
At a recent conference in Lexington, Kentucky, economists and community leaders gathered to talk about the state’s current budget crunch and possible economic future. Peter Hille, president of Mountain Association for… Read More
Burned By Coal: Coalfield Communities Facing Electricity Price Hikes
One evening this past November, angry customers and public officials filled a high school auditorium in Hazard, Kentucky, and took turns pleading with three members of the state’s public service… Read More
Private Money To Pay For Mining Study Trump Administration Had Stopped
The prestigious National Academy of Sciences is pursuing private funding to complete a study of the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining after the Trump administration ordered a halt to the scientific work…. Read More
R.I.P., CPP? Clean Energy Trend Likely To Continue Despite Trump’s Clean Power Repeal
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey stood in front of the state’s capitol to rally the roughly 120 coal miners and industry boosters gathered there. “The fight against the unlawful… Read More
Clean Power Plan’s Repeal Gets Hearing In Coal Country
Last month the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt chose an eastern Kentucky mining town as the venue to announce his intent to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era… Read More
Carbon Capture Reconsidered: Big-Ticket Climate Fix Gets a Fresh Look
A bipartisan group in Congress, including several Ohio Valley lawmakers, is pushing for more federal support for technology known as carbon capture and storage. The lawmakers and an uncommon alliance… Read More
Coal Comfort: Trump’s EPA And Energy’s Winners And Losers
The Environmental Protection Agency’s move to end the Clean Power Plan is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to support the struggling coal industry. The Department of Energy is also pushing a new… Read More
EPA’s Pruitt Visits Kentucky Coal Country To End Clean Power Plan
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt used a trip to Kentucky coal country to announce the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle a regulation that sought to limit carbon pollution. Pruitt… Read More
Trump Administration Halts Mining Health Study
The Trump administration’s Department of the Interior has asked the National Academy of Sciences to suspend research into the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. A team from the National Academies… Read More
In The Pipeline: New Commission Members To Take Up Energy Projects
Big-ticket gas pipelines and other energy projects pending in the Ohio Valley have largely been in limbo because the federal body that issues important permits had too many empty seats…. Read More
Paradise Cost: Coal, Natural Gas, And The True Price Of Power
Thanks to singer-songwriter John Prine, Paradise Fossil Plant might be the only coal-fired power plant that has a household name. “Paradise,” Prine’s 1971 ballad, drew on boyhood memories from the… Read More
Divestment Proposal Pits Coal States Against California
Political leaders in West Virginia and Kentucky are joining a coalition of states threatening to sue California over a program the state is pushing that would drop investments in coal…. Read More
Power Play: Experts Say Killing Clean Power Plan Won’t Revive Coal
Coal-producing states are preparing for arguments next month in the federal appeals court case known as West Virginia v. EPA, challenging the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan to limit greenhouse… Read More
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