by Jane Richey | Feb 10, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Coal miners and coal executives alike are upset at the recent push for environmental regulations that will cripple, if not put an end, to the entire coal mining industry. All this in the name of clean energy, which has yet to be proven to be sustainable and a viable...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Agenda 21, Politics
Democrats are digging in against cuts to clean-energy research as lawmakers again face a deadline to replace billions of dollars in spending reductions from sequestration. The “fiscal cliff” deal that lawmakers struck this week delayed the sequestered budget cuts...
by Jane Richey | Nov 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Placement in jobs retained more than six months through a $500 million Labor Department green-jobs training program is falling 84 percent short of its goal, according to a report released Friday. The Labor inspector general audit offered a bleak picture of one of...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
President Obama used the backdrop of an Iowa wind-energy manufacturing plant Thursday to ramp up pressure on Congress to extend an expiring tax break that has been vital to financing new power projects. Extension of the wind-energy production tax credit — which is...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
According to White House energy adviser Heather Zichal, the Obama administration still sees a future for coal. She also said that the administration wasn’t “singing ‘Kumbaya’” with the natural gas industry and was committed to seeing coal burned “in a more...