Can oil companies use their extra money to ease pain at the pump? It’s complicated.

Morgan Bazilian, who heads up the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, said, “I don’t know if that has any precedent at all.”
April 12, 2022

For Europe, quitting Russian coal will be easier than quitting Russian natural gas

Natural gas requires pipelines or special import terminals to move around the world. Coal, on the other hand, does not, noted Ian Lange, an associate professor at the Colorado School of Mines.
April 5, 2022

Russia’s role in world’s nuclear energy industry prompts calls to up U.S. uranium production

Morgan Bazilian teaches public policy at the Colorado School of Mines. “When you look around and you do a bid for who’s going to build your plant, up till two months ago, the Russian plants were a very attractive option,” Bazilian said.
March 30, 2022

The EU has sworn off Russian steel. That could be bad news for the environment.

EU officials had hoped to persuade Russia to clean things up. But Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines, said now that’s taking a back seat.
March 21, 2022

Coal prices are high as stockpiles hit new lows

If these high coal prices last even a little bit longer, though, private equity firms might come calling, according to Ian Lange, director of the mineral energy economics program at the Colorado School of Mines.
November 30, 2021

Coal prices are rising, but producers can’t keep up with demand

Coal producers in the U.S. would like to take advantage of these high prices, but the infrastructure is just not there, according to Ian Lange, an economist at the Colorado School of Mines.
October 8, 2021

Colonial Pipeline hack reveals critical infrastructure risks

But at the Colorado School of Mines, policy professor Morgan Bazilian said unless rules have teeth and bring about change in the industry, hackers will return.
May 11, 2021