31May

State Must Develop Coal Technology

Via The Bismarck Tribune: Say you recently bought a new car for the family. It seats five comfortably, meets current safety and gas mileage standards (called CAFE Standards by the Environmental Protection Agency) and you financed it for five years; not an uncommon thing to do in this day and age. You plan on keeping […]
27May

NMA President Fights to Keep Coal Industry Afloat in the West

Via Daily Energy Insider:  National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn recently encouraged the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday to keep coal lease sales on federal land unchanged because the price is fair to taxpayers. “There is no compelling need for a moratorium to ‘fix’ a program that isn’t broken,” Quinn […]
27May

Oklahoma Attorney General Says Clean Power Plan Violates State Sovereignty

Via The Washington Examiner:  The Clean Power Plan infringes on the sovereignty of the states and stretches the imagination of what Congress intended in the Clean Air Act, Oklahoma’s attorney general told a panel Thursday. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology’s Environment Subcommittee that he believed in […]
26May

Republican AGs Slam EPA For Ignoring Supreme Court Ruling

Via The Daily Caller: The Republican attorney generals of Texas and West Virginia are demanding the Obama administration stop working on its signature global warming regulation, which they argue violates a Supreme Court order. “Their efforts and those of your agency to try to make the Power Plan a fait accompli fail to accord proper […]
26May

Attorney General Morrisey to EPA: Halt Federal Spending on Clean Power Plan

Via HuntingtonNews.Net: CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey  announced he and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently sent a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop spending federal tax dollars to comply with the halted Power Plan. “The entire point of the Supreme Court’s extraordinary action in putting a stop to […]
26May

“War on Coal” Seen Behind Federal Mining Rules that Maryland is Opposing

Via The Baltimore Sun: Just a few years ago, Jack Ternent was selling chain, rope and cement to the coal mines in the mountains around his store — the kind of trade that propped up Western Maryland’s economy for more than a century. But as the coal industry has withered nationally, and in Maryland especially, […]
25May

With EPA Regulations, Coal Plants Turn Off The Lights

Via The Wheeling News-Register: WHEELING -This year, utility providers are expected to extinguish as much as 45 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity – enough to power as many as 45 million homes. Furthermore, U.S. electricity generators consumed 29 percent less coal in 2015 than in 2007. If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan goes […]
25May

Administration Experts: CPP Is Costly, “Stupid”

May 25, 2016 Why are a growing number of states – 29 at last count – challenging EPA’s costly power plan? Because they’re persuaded by a growing number of authorities, some from the Obama administration, of just how costly it will be. The latest to forecast the pain from EPA’s rule is none other than […]
24May

Former Obama DOE Official Set to Critique ‘Stupid Regulations’

Via E&E Publishing:  A former Obama administration official plans this week to tell lawmakers that the Clean Power Plan is “ideological mumbo jumbo” and that the government would be better off investing more money into clean energy and fossil fuel technologies. Charles McConnell, who was responsible for the Department of Energy’s fossil fuels program, will […]
23May

Program That Leases Coal Should Continue

Via The Knoxville News-Sentinel: Some Americans may not realize it, but coal still provides roughly 35 percent of all the electricity generated in the United States — the largest share of electricity from any one energy source. States that rely on coal as their primary source of power enjoy the lowest electricity costs nationwide. Partly […]