Washington DC - February 5 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released action plans developed by 22 electric utility facilities with coal ash impoundments, describing the measures the facilities are taking to make their impoundments safer.

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Washington DC - February 4 - President Barack Obama announced a series of steps his Administration is taking, boosting biofuels production and reducing dangerous dependence on foreign oil, as part of its comprehensive strategy building a foundation for a new clean energy economy.

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Washington DC - January 12 - A new study published by Dr. Margaret Palmer and several of the nation’s leading river scientists details in no uncertain terms, the harmful and unavoidable affects of mountaintop mining on rivers, streams, and freshwater resources.

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Washington DC - January 6 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a path forward on two mountaintop coal mining operations in West Virginia.

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Washington DC - January 5 - Preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) just released indicate that mine fatalities in 2009 fell to an all-time low for the second straight year.

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Washington DC - December 31 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken a significant step in an effort to help reduce the need for federal taxpayers to fund the cleanup of environmental releases, identifying three additional industry sectors for which it will begin the regulatory development process for any necessary financial assurance requirements.

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Washington DC - December 22 - No new coal plants broke ground in 2009, a result of a combination of widespread public opposition, rising costs, increasing financial risks and concerns over future carbon regulations.

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Washington DC - December 7 - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the selection of three new projects with a value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale.

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Washington DC - December 2 - The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), along with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), will hold the first in a series of regional one-day workshops focusing on the prevention of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) and other lung diseases, commonly referred to as “black lung.”

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Washington DC - November 9 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a cooperative agreement with Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) to build and demonstrate a hydrogen-powered electric generating facility, complete with carbon capture and storage, in Kern County, Calif.

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Washington DC - September 21 - Lobbyists for the coal and oil industries are making a push to weaken and amend current climate change legislation, the Sierra Club states, and limit the administration’s ability to regulate polluters.

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Washington DC - September 16 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water.

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Washington DC - September 14 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  has identified 79 proposed surface coal-mining projects in Appalachian states for further reviews of their pending permits. The extended reviews will be carried out by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.

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Washington DC - September 9 - Injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) began today in a first-of-a-kind field trial of enhanced coalbed methane recovery with simultaneous CO2 sequestration in an unmineable coal seam.The ultimate goal is to help mitigate climate change by providing an effective and economic means to permanently store CO2.

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Washington DC - September 3 - The nation’s third largest utility, Duke Energy has announced it is terminating its membership in the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, citing disagreement over clean energy legislation.

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