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Despite his significant backing of (that unicorn like notion of) “clean coal” and opening of huge areas of Federal land for increased coal production, the coal industry is bankrolling an aggressive campaign against President Obama — embraced with passion by the Republican Party — arguing that there is a “War on Coal”.  These coal barons [...]

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The Romney-Ryan energy plan has been appropriately castigated for embracing and enshrining fossil fuels while disdaining and dismissing renewable energy systems (and, well, totally ignoring energy efficiency).  (One could say that the Romney-Ryan campaign is rejecting energy from heaven and embracing (with passion) energy from hell.) With mindless ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ cheering, enraptured sonnets for Keystone [...]

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This guest post comes from James Wells who eloquently and passionately is outlining the detrimental implications of short-term thinking embrace of coal exports.

The phrase, arriving in the middle of a deeply technical presentation, stood out for everything it said in just one sentence.
“They’re just going to be rounded out of existence, because they are a [...]

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You never know where you will bump into interesting career opportunities:
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity Seeks New President
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Date: 2012-02-29, 5:19PM EST
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Job Title: President, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
Job Description:
Are you a motivated go-getter who hates to let facts stand in the way of profits? Are you good at making something out of nothing? [...]

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Energy policy is a rather complicated domain. That complexity is worsened when factual errors (whether purposefully driven or accidental) enter into the discussion. In the weeks since the news broke about U.S. refined products now being a net export, rather than import, marketplace, it is hard to overstate the number of times where people have [...]

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A few years ago, the coal industry decided to cheer up the
holiday season with some sacriligeous caroling. Let us remember that the Frosty the Snowman story ends in a way to tug at the hearts: melting away with a promise to come back some day. In consider their decision to link coal to Frosty the [...]

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This guest post from RL Miller provides an insightful way to look at decisions across America that are giving the Federal Government’s blessing to expanded and enhanced fossil fuel production.
The Keystone XL pipeline symbolizes our national debate: a governmental policy to be made that will set policy, for good or bad, for years to come: [...]

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Reminiscent a bit of Caroling Coal, my in-box this morning was deluged with Peabody Energy press releases (see full material after the fold) and other announcements of a new public relations campaign:  Coal Cares. 
Evidently stung by the medical community’s highlighting of the linkages between the burning of coal (mainly for electricity) and health problems in America’s [...]

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For a huge share of Americans, Mr. Rodgers’ singing “won’t you be my neighbor” on their local public television station was a warm welcoming to becoming part of a larger community.
Well, in the 21st century, associated with prospects for killing off funding for those public outlets and for creating havoc for years to come through [...]

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