The ONRR has proposed to reform federal coal valuation policy for royalty assessment and in this paper we estimate the expected changes associated with different reform options. We find that if royalty revenues are determined using the delivered price of coal instead of prices used in non-arm's...

Financial institutions around the world have announced halts to financing of coal-fired power plants (CFPPs). Non-profit and non-governmental organisations have financing, developed databases and reports that provide information on financial data and CFPP projects, as well as the quality of the...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to provide methods to find the emission source and estimate the amount of waste gas emissions in the electricity coal supply chain, establish the model of the environmental impact (burden) in the electricity coal supply chain, detect the critical factor which...

The prospect of climate change regulation has already had an important impact on investment in coal-fired power plants. Under state utility regulation, regulators must balance investor-owned utilities' interest in earning profits with customers' interest in receiving low-cost power. The...

The United States coal supply is important to energy planning and policy-making. Current data on the magnitude of geologically, environmentally, economically, socially, and legally accessible coal reserves are of insufficient quality to guide policy-making and public and private decisions,...

Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern United States due to the changing electricity system and the resulting employment losses in rural areas have become salient issues for all levels of government. Previous...

Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power sector, as well as an aging coal- fired power plant fleet....

An influential literature posits that introducing market mechanisms to price-regulated industries generates substantial long-run efficiency benefits by removing the incentive to over-invest in capital. The coal storage behavior of U.S. power plants is an ideal setting to empirically assess this...