Opinion – Jon Park: Kentucky is right to put reliable power first
Recently, I joined more than 20 Kentucky leaders, utilities, businesses, local officials, and community organizations in signing a letter from…
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Opinion – Bill Straub: ‘Nascent climatologist’ Robert Stivers all-in on Trump’s embrace of king coal
WASHINGTON – Meet Robert Stivers, attorney, president of the Kentucky State Senate and nascent climatologist. Stivers, a Republican from Manchester,…
Opinion: Why we are working with President Trump to secure the future of Appalachian coal
By Russell Coleman and JB McCuskey Special to NKyTribune America needs coal. For generations, our nation has tapped into coal’s…
Commentary: Kentucky Coal Association needs to face the facts about true cause of power failures
By Julia Finch and Drew Foley Kentucky Sierra Club In his September 13 guest column, Kentucky Coal Association President Tucker…
Bill Straub: Given all Beshear has faced as governor, he has done admirable job; except on climate change
Considering the disasters he has been forced to confront in his official capacity as governor – COVID-19, the Mayfield tornado,…
Kentucky Community Action Agencies now accepting application for LIHEAP subsidy program
Kentucky Community Action Agencies are accepting applications for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Subsidy Component. Applications will be…
Coal prices are surging, but labor shortage, shifting market make a boom for Appalachia unlikely
By Justin Hicks Ohio Valley ReSource David Byrd, of Sulphur, is one of the few people left who sell coal…
Commentary: For the sake of our health, the time is now to unite against the use of fossil fuels
By Charles Lutz and Elizabeth Jackson Special to NKyTribune As medical professionals, we have a duty to heal and protect…
UK researchers launch $2 million project to study sulfur problem in biofuel production, reduce pollution
By Katie Pratt University of Kentucky Sulfur found in biofuel feedstock poses serious problems to the industry, because it causes…
Bill Straub: With King Coal’s reign about over in the Commonwealth (and elsewhere) it’s on to natural gas
To paraphrase that great American intellectual, Sarah Palin, how is that beautiful, clean coal stuff working out for ya? Well,…
Tyler White: Don’t burden coal country with a tax increase on the industry; coal needs to compete
Black Lung is a terrible disease. Just one case is a case too many. All miners who suffer from black lung must receive the benefits…
Bill Straub: The Napoleon of coal ( good, beautiful, clean) coal is just playing along and enjoying the joke
There are many good things that can be said about coal. For decades, even centuries, in the United States it…
Coal’s future still bleak as utilities shift to cheaper natural gas, wind and solar; market forces prevail
“A year after Donald Trump was elected president on a promise to revive the ailing U.S. coal industry, the sector’s…
Mitch McConnell: Stream Buffer Rule put coal-related jobs at risk; friend in White House changed that
As the Obama administration packed its boxes and prepared to leave office, the former president took a parting shot at…
Rural Blog: Cheap natural gas, not air pollution regulation, is main reason for coal’s decline
From the Rural Blog Cheaper natural gas, not regulation of air pollution by President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, is the…
U.S coal production may have bottomed out; market forecasters say coal may be bullish in 2017
From the Rural Blog U.S. coal production recently hit historically low level, but is rebounding, and investors seem to think…
Bill Straub: Though the demagoguery continues on coal, the real truth is that there is no future for it
Those who managed to survive a viewing of the Republican presidential debate from Milwaukee on Tuesday evening – and a…