Coal’s role as a Cornerstone Fuel goes far beyond winter crises but is a 24/7 contributor to reliable and affordable electricity all year round. And, as far as summer heat…
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“China is Building the [Renewable] Future … building coal-fired power stations, … because it has to …”
Building communist coal power stations is apparently OK and necessary, but it is very wrong when President Trump does it.
Quiet Archipelago’s Embrace of Hydrocarbons Speaks Loudly
From London to Beijing, from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul, the energy market recognizes that Indonesia is open for business. The sheer scale of the country’s initiatives promises a torrent of…
COP30 CEO: “Climate change is our biggest war”
The Brazilian climate conference leadership is fed up with trade wars and shooting wars distracting from climate negotiations.
Decarbonization Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows
Meanwhile, the digital battleground remains an arena for the ongoing tug-of-war between the realities of economics and physics and fanciful rhetoric about an energy transition. The growth in consumption of…
Big, Beautiful Coal Here for Many More Years Despite ‘Green’ Demonization
Coal is expected to dominate the energy sector for at least three more decades, barring a disruption by rapid innovation that would enable its economical displacement. Similarly, the mineral will…
STEVE MILLOY: President Trump Moves To End The War On Coal
President Trump took two major steps this week to end the 14-year-old Democrat war against the coal industry and cheap electricity. Although greens have promised to sue, they are unlikely…
Trump’s EPA Ending Obama-Biden War on the American Energy Industry
EPA Administrator Lee Zelding proposing end to Obama-Biden “Clean Power Plan” and reverting back to more reasonable mercury levels set in 2012, which were amended in 2024.
Coal Is the New Bridge Fuel
The era of tearing down existing, well-operating power plants before reliable replacement capacity is built and connected to the grid is over. The on-demand power plants already in service are…
Trump Admin Backs Red States’ Antitrust Suit Against Financial Titans To ‘Protect Coal’
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) threw their weight behind an antitrust lawsuit against major asset managers that alleges the firms colluded to tank coal production…
Climate Change Weekly # 543 —Current Climate Conditions Aren’t Historically Extreme or Unusual, New Research Shows
Recently, a number of new studies and analyses have been published indicating what readers of CCW have long known: recent climate conditions are not historically unusual. An examination of long-term…
Climate Change Weekly # 542 — More Ways Coal Improves the Economy and the Environment
Since misanthropic environmentalists and their Western-world-hating fellow travelers in academia and in the political realm discovered climate alarm as a fashionable and effective way to hamper economic growth and constrain…
‘War On Coal Is Finally Over’: Energy Experts Say Trump Admin’s Deregulation Agenda Could Fuel Coal’s Revival
Energy generated from burning coal only powers roughly 16% of the U.S., though 40 states are dependent on coal, according to data from America’s Power. Energy generation through coal reached a record…
The Department of the Interior Moves to Restore Coal Industry
“The Golden Age is here, and we are starting to ‘Mine, Baby, Mine’ for clean American coal,” said Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. “Interior is unlocking America’s full potential in…
Aussie Election: A Choice Between Impractical Renewables and Unaffordable Nuclear
Domestic energy policy blunders from politicians on all sides are killing Australia’s manufacturing industry.
Hydrocarbon-Friendly Trump a Match for Energy-Hungry India
With 1.4 billion energy-hungry citizens, India stands at the epicenter of the geopolitics of energy and climate policy. As the world’s third-largest energy consumer and projected to have the fastest…
MEDIA ADVISORY: President Trump’s Embrace of Coal-powered Energy Is ‘the Right Thing for America’
President Trump said he is authorizing his administration to “immediately begin producing energy with beautiful, clean coal.”
The Coal Fleet Can Underpin the Energy Abundance Agenda
The U.S. needs more dispatchable electricity—and we need it immediately. Power demand is exploding across the country at the very moment the nation’s grid reliability is teetering on the edge…
Claim: Chinese Coal Plant Construction is “Undermining” their Renewable Transition
“…In 2024, coal power construction activity surged to 94.5 GW, its highest level since 2015, reinforcing coal’s entrenched role in the power system. …”
Why Should We Keep New Mexico’s Remaining Coal Plant in Service? It’s Essential.
For the foreseeable future, new sources of power should come on the shoulders of these reliability bulwarks, not in place of them. Rotating blackouts, rising prices and missed economic opportunities…