by Audrey Streb
The Daily Caller
The United States is projected to generate more power from coal in 2025 than in 2024, though the resource has endured an assault from the executive branch, green groups and Congress in recent years.
America generated about 13 percent more energy from coal between January and October 2025 than it did during the same period in 2024, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Though the Biden administration, prominent green groups like the Sierra Club and Congressional Democrats have worked to block coal projects and smother the industry in regulations, the energy resource continues to help meet America’s power needs…
“If Santa leaves you coal this year, you’re obviously on the nice list,” Amy Cooke, co-founder and president of Always on Energy Research and the director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “In a winter of surging demand and cold temperatures, it’s coal plants … that are the workhorses of the electric grid, delivering round-the-clock, reliable, and affordable power to keep your Christmas lights burning bright.”…
“Our grid should not be held hostage to one fuel for baseload power,” Energy and Environment Legal Institute Senior Fellow Steve Milloy told the DCNF, arguing that coal is a vital source of electricity for multiple reasons. “First, we have an abundance of it — hundreds of years’ worth of readily accessible reserves. Although the misguided climate and energy policies of the Obama and Biden administrations destroyed much of our coal infrastructure, much remains, and much can be rebuilt.”
Milloy also reasoned that coal is inexpensive to burn and that it powers America’s grid during periods of high demand more reliably than natural gas as “a coal plant with a pile of coal outside can more readily meet peak demand than a gas plant supplied by a pipeline with gas flowing in at 20 miles per hour.”
“There are communities all over America that thrived when coal was king, a scant 15 or so years ago,” Milloy told the DCNF. “They have suffered as a result of the Obama-Biden war on coal. These communities and their states could benefit greatly from a revived coal industry.”
