The Foundation for Economic Education (7/17/18) op-ed: “Declines in CO2 emissions in 2017 were led by the US (-0.5% and 42 million tons, see chart above). This is the ninth time in this century that the US has had the largest decline in emissions in the world. This also was the third consecutive year that emissions in the US declined, though the fall was the smallest over the last three years.”
Texas tops nation in energy creation and use, but who knew coal was on the rise here?
By Laurie Joseph and Jeff Mosier Texas is the nation’s largest — and one of the world’s top — oil producers. A result is that Texas also leads the nation in energy consumption by a wide margin. Texas uses a little more energy than California in the commercial, residential and transportation sectors. In the industrial sector, Texas uses more than double the energy of number two Louisiana. Both states dominate the oil refining and chemical industries. Meanwhile, Texas …
Air Quality Continues to Improve, While U.S. Economy Continues to Grow
Press Release 08/02/2017 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report on air quality, showing the significant progress the United States has made to improve air quality across the country. “Our Nation’s Air: Status and Trends Through 2016” documents the steady and significant progress made in improving air quality across America, over more than 45 years under the Clean Air Act. This progress is often overlooked; the Association of Air …
How ‘the Energy Capital of the Nation’ regained its optimism in the Trump era
The resurrected feeling of American possibility came not from pontificating TV pundits or a radio host in a studio miles away. Optimism arrived here because of what people were seeing: the unemployment lines getting shorter and their daily commutes getting longer. Tom Gorton, 41, drove through those increasingly congested streets in his Arnold Machinery truck late on a spring afternoon, under the watch of mountains covered in white from a spring snowstorm. As Gorton settled …
‘God bless’ Pruitt on CO2 reforms — Rep. Barton
Rep. Joe Barton, the conservative Texas Republican who serves as vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wants U.S. EPA to revisit the 2009 endangerment finding that underpins Obama-era carbon emissions standards. Administrator Scott Pruitt’s conclusion yesterday, in a widely panned interview with CNBC, that carbon dioxide is not the main driver behind climate change encouraged Barton (Greenwire, March 9). “I would be hopeful that they do an honest assessment of it,” the …
‘Too valuable to burn’: Ramaco to turn coal from Wyo. mine into car, plane parts
Ramaco Carbon LLC is aiming to “fundamentally diversify the future of the coal industry” with a “coal to cars” mine, research center and industrial park. The facility is a partnership of the Ramaco Resources Inc. affiliate as well as national research teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Grossman Group for Advanced Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Duke University, Southern Research Institute and the Western Research Institute. The group is aiming to divert “a significant …
TVA president on the future of coal, nuclear and carbon policy under the Trump administration
With major changes expected in the electric power sector, and on energy and environment regulations under the Trump administration, how is the nation’s largest publicly owned utility adjusting its outlook and operations for the dramatic changes that could be ahead? During E&E News’ OnPoint, William Johnson, president and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, explains how coal could play a larger role in TVA’s future generation mix. He also talks about the three open positions on …
Coal to Lead U.S. in Energy Production in 2017
Even for all the gloom and doom surrounding the coal industry lately, coal will still account for more U.S energy production in 2017 than any other resource according to the U.S Energy Information Administration. Coals comeback marks a rebound from 2016 where, for the first time, U.S electricity from natural gas exceeded output from coal-fired power plants. But with higher natural gas prices on the horizon, coal should once again take the top energy producing …