If the 2025 legislative session provides any indication, new efforts to turn back time will arise when the 2026 Legislature checks in on Jan. 14.

Last winter the GOP supermajority approved Senate Concurrent Resolution 18 which would require state agencies to strategize ways to “fully develop coal production and in-state coal consumption.”

Their race-to the-1950s resolution called on the Department of Commerce, the Public Energy Authority and the Office of Energy to consider development of new coal-fired plants (although no new plants have come on-line in the U.S. in a dozen years), develop regulations for regular upgrades to extend existing plant’s lives and to devise regulations to prevent closure of present coal-fired plants. Can resolutions in support of black-and-white TV and ringer

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