What Are We Teaching Our Children?

By Jason Hayes, American Coal Council

There is a disturbing lack of accurate and balanced energy information provided for kids in our schools today, and if the actions of one of the nation’s venerable education-focused publishing houses were any indication, school children across the country would be ill served in this area.

In May 2011, educational publisher Scholastic removed “the United States of Energy” from its list of publications. As a non-profit coal industry association had sponsored the printing of this publication, Scholastic representatives claimed to have pulled it to remove any taint of organizational or funding [...]

Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests

By John C.K. Daly, Oilprice.com

Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China.

Ulaan Bator’s situation is akin to interwar Poland, dexterously attempting to reconcile its foreign policy between the USSR’s hammer and Nazi Germany’s hard place. Who will ultimately benefit is anyone’s guess, but the country’s nascent energy and mineralogical riches have opened the land of Genghis Khan to a fierce bidding war whose ultimate outcome is unclear at best.

The nation is essentially empty, its 2.8 million citizens producing an average population density of just [...]

Comments of Representative Doug Lamborn to the American Coal Council’s Coal Market Strategies Conference

Congressman Doug Lamborn. 5th District of Colorado in the US House of Representatives August 23, 2011

Editor’s note: We invited Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) to speak to the attendees of our 2011 Coal Market Strategies conference, held Aug. 22 to 24 in Colorado Springs, CO. A portion of the Congressman’s speech is reprinted below.

While there is no escaping the very real threat posed by anti-coal regulations and government action that has been aimed at “bankrupting the coal industry,” we can’t forget that our industry is populated by thousands of [...]