EPA's has unleashed a suite of rules specifically designed to force the closure of well-operating coal plants and they did so with absolutely no analysis of the collective impact of these rules on the nation’s alarmingly shaky grid reliability.

The EPA announced a final ruling affecting carbon emission from coal-fired electricity on Thursday morning.

Students planted some 1,000 trees on a Wellmore Coal Company permitted coal mine site near Grundy, Virginia.

"At first glance, this rule looks to set the funeral date for thermal coal mining in America for 2032, along with the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are directly and indirectly associated with it," said UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts.

The Biden Administration imposed a sweeping new suite of environmental regulations including a requirement for coal-fired power plants to capture 90% of their greenhouse gas emissions by 2039.

The only underground coal mining company in Montana is suing the Bureau of Land Management and its mining division for stalling a process that would open up more federal land to coal mining.