Heidi Heitkamp, the Democratic Senate candidate in North Dakota, made a late-Friday assault on President Obama’s anti-coal energy policy and officials that deserves another look.

“You’re wrong on energy,” Heitkamp said she would tell the president. “You’re headed in the wrong direction. You made bad decisions . . .You promised that you would promote clean coal technologies, that you would be a champion of coal, and you haven’t done it.”