08Dec

State Officials, Crow Tribe, Question Proposed Carbon Regulations

BILLINGS – A meeting at the Billings Chamber of Commerce on Friday afternoon focused on concerns over new carbon regulations and how they could impact Montana jobs. Those new standards would force Montana to reduce carbon emissions and comply with stricter EPA guidelines. Those on the Crow Reservation call it the “war on coal,” saying […]
06Dec

NMA Recognizes National Miners Day

“The National Mining Association is proud to recognize America’s miners and their indispensable role in powering and building our nation. While one day each year is set aside to honor these highly skilled and dedicated professionals, every American can thank them every day for providing the energy, metals, minerals and materials essential for our way […]
05Dec

Rep. Cramer: Where will you be when the lights go out?

Discussion of the Obama administration’s proposal for reducing carbon emissions from power plants has mostly focused on the staggering cost of this unprecedented regulation. But a pair of reports out this month paint an even more frightening picture. Not only will your electricity cost more, you might not be able to get it when you […]
04Dec

EPA’s Clean Power Plan Could Force Kentucky Co-op to Shut Coal Plants: CEO

East Kentucky Power Cooperative warned the US Environmental Protection Agency that its proposed Clean Power Plan could force the co-op to either close or sharply curtail two coal-fired generating units it spent nearly $1 billion to build in the past decade. The generation and transmission co-op, one of the largest in the country, has invested […]
03Dec

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell Opposes EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Emissions Rule

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has joined 16 other state attorneys general in opposing proposed Environmental Protection Agency guidelines aimed at curbing carbon emissions. In a letter submitted to EPA, the attorneys general charged the new rules violate provisions of the Clean Air Act that give states more authority over power plants. The proposed rules would require 30 percent cuts in […]
03Dec

Ohio Power Prices Could Spike With U.S. Plan to Cut Power Plant CO2 Emissions

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio will fight the Obama administration’s plan to dramatically reduce the amount of carbon dioxide the state’s utilities are pumping into the atmosphere. State regulators on Monday challenged the feasibility and legality of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed “Clean Power Plan” that would cut power plant CO2 emissions by 30 percent […]
02Dec

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: EPA Clean Power Plan Bad for Business

The EPA closed public comment on its Clean Power Plan on Dec. 1 after receiving more than 1.6 million comments. Among them was one from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is opposing the increased regulation to reduce CO2 emissions. The plan would cut carbon emissions from the power sector approximately 30 percent from 2005 levels […]
02Dec

Montana PSC: Clean Power Plan Based on ‘Old World Definition’ of Power Grid

The Montana Public Service Commission has told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that assumptions in the proposed Clean Power Plan are based on an ‘old-world definition’ of the transmission grid that does not accurately represent the realities of RTO divisions, according to TransmissionHub. In Nov. 21 comments submitted to the EPA, the PSC suggested that the final […]
02Dec

Ohio Agencies Oppose U.S. Plan for Power-plant Carbon Cuts

A federal proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants nationwide is unachievable in Ohio and would unfairly raise electricity rates for consumers, the state Environmental Protection Agency and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio said yesterday. In comments sent to the U.S. EPA about itsplan to cut mercury and greenhouse-gas emissions, both state agencies said […]
02Dec

PUC Calls on EPA to Pull Back CO2 Rule

The Texas Public Utility Commission called a new EPA law capping carbon dioxide emissions by power plants “unworkable” and an “unlawful intrusion” in comments submitted to the federal government Monday. “The rule establishes completely unachievable timelines for this fundamental remaking of the power industry, creating great threats to the ability of Texas to manage and […]