Q2 2010

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 [...]

By Kim Link, Arch Coal

The U.S. Department of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for reforestation efforts recently recognized Arch Coal’s Coal-Mac, Inc. for its reclamation work on the Phoenix #2 surface mine located in Logan County, West Virginia, near Omar. The presentation of the 2010 Excellence in Reforestation Award in West Virginia culminates nearly a decade-long reclamation effort by the company.

The presentation of the 2010 Excellence in Reforestation Award in West Virginia was made by Rick Buckley, Branch Chief, Field Support OSM Charleston Field Office with the OSM’s Charleston Field Office. “These reforestation efforts are being recognized under the [...]

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 [...]