According to the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) weekly production report, weekly coal production for the week ending June 7 total 18.6 million tons, which is a 3 percent drop from last week’s total and 1.4 percent higher than the same week in 2013.
Year-to-date coal production nationwide totaled 426.4 million tons, which is .2 percent lower than the same period for 2013.
As part of its work to implement a new Aboveground Storage Tank Regulatory Program, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) has opened the registration period for tank owners to submit information required for a statewide inventory. Any tanks that are subject to the Aboveground Storage Tank Act (Senate Bill 373) that are not registered with the DEP by October 1 will be out of compliance with state law.
WV MetroNews – UMWA president calls EPA draft rule ‘worse than bad’
What do Manufacturer's Think? NAM's Ross Eisenberg discusses the impact of the EPA's new rule yesterday http://bit.ly/TUe0gm
From Sen. John Thune: EPA’s regulation of existing power plants will disproportionately harm low-income households. http://bit.ly/1pS1kAA
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Coal Association has issued the following statement in response to today’s EPA’s announcement of new GHG regulations for existing power plants.
“Today’s announcement of new GHG regulations by President Obama’s EPA is just another slap in the face by an administration that has gone on record with the intent to shut down coal-fired power generation in this country. Though expected, this announcement is nonetheless disappointing in that it makes it clear that all the pleas of our people of the past six years have fallen on deaf ears.
Triangle, Va -- United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today:
"The proposed rule issued today by the Environmental Protection Agency will lead to long-term and irreversible job losses for thousands of coal miners, electrical workers, utility workers, boilermakers, railroad workers and others without achieving any significant reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions.