|
|
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
October 2012
The U.S. Senate describes a regulatory "onslaught" planned by the Obama Administration for a second term, including greenhouse rules that could cost up to $400 billion annually, "driving up energy prices, destroying millions of jobs, and further weakening the economy."
|
|
Energy Policy Research Institute
August 2012
A new study from the Energy Policy Research Foundation, a highly regarded, non-profit energy research institute, concludes that expanding coal exports from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming will bring $2 to $6 billion to the U.S. economy annually -- without increasing global greenhouse gas emissions or coal consumption. According to the report, an expansion of coal exports would create substantial new revenue streams for state, local and federal governments.
|
|
|
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent the past three years studying the paralyzing effect that excessive environmental reviews have had on major infrastructure and energy projects. The Chamber’s 2010 study Project No Project demonstrates that for energy projects alone, some 351 projects were stopped or seriously delayed by frivolous reviews, at a cost of 1.9 million jobs each year that otherwise could have been made available to people who desperately needed them.
|
|
|
Business Roundtable Sustainability Report
The world's largest private-sector coal company, Peabody Energy, discusses how the organization works to create a sustainable global future by starting with a social contract. Job one is to put people first by ensuring energy access for all and alleviating energy poverty through greater use of coal.
|
|
|
It's a typical game night at Busch Stadium: The crowd cheers and chants, the St. Louis Cardinals round the bases. Then in the bottom of the sixth, the lights dim and the action stops. Without clean coal, it's game over.
|
|
|