News & Events Archive

• March 24, 2008

  Joe Lucas: Coal Production Boosts Stake in Industry

  There is a lot of talk about whether the national economy is slowing and how quickly, leading to even greater concerns among states over how they will compete for jobs, no matter whose economic forecasts are right.

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• March 24, 2008

  Joe Lucas: Coal, A Bridge to the Future

  Ohio has a premier role in developing tomorrow's cleaner energy, a goal we all share.
  In the next century, we might get all our power from the wind, the sun or something else altogether new, that we don't even know about today. But we don't just leap over to that other, greener shore. The river between our energy future and us is decades in width and we need to build some bridges to cross.

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• March 28, 2008

  Nearly $1 in $4 of Income Goes to Buy Energy

  It is not just the poorest households who are struggling to pay their energy bills or who are affected by government energy policies, says Americans for Balanced Energy Choices.

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• April 01, 2008

  Coal-use advocates follow contenders

  While the Democratic presidential candidates are out stumping in Pennsylvania, they’re being followed by some interesting vans carrying advocates of an issue that a year ago didn’t need any additional publicity.

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• April 02, 2008

  Reporter's Notebook

  There were no signs at the event, but people donned free T-shirts and free hats that simply read “Clean Coal” and sported the Web address of a special- interest group known as Americans for Balanced Energy Choices.The Web site, www.americaspower.org, touts the need for coal in future energy policies. It’s unclear whether the myriad of people wearing Clean Coal caps were in fact lobbying for that, but Mr. Obama acknowledged the free gear and discussed clean coal.

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