02May

Minority Families Would Bear Brunt of Clean Power Plan

Via The Duluth News-Tribune: Higher energy bills, fewer jobs, lower incomes and more poverty: That’s what lies in store for already struggling black, Hispanic and other minority families if the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is allowed to go into effect. Enforced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and unveiled last year, the plan seeks […]
29Apr

Pennsylvania Coal Industry Crushed by Needless Regulation

Via The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: For decades, Pennsylvania has proudly mined the coal that fuels American industry. During World War II, coal helped fire the steel foundries and factories that built America into the “Arsenal of Democracy.” Today, coal still supplies roughly 35 percent of U.S. power generation — more than any other single power source. […]
28Apr

The Federal Coal Moratorium – Politics Masquerading As Policy

Via Real Clear Politics: Some Americans may not realize it, but coal still provides roughly 35% of all the electricity generated in the United States. That’s the largest share of affordable electricity from any one energy source. States that rely on coal as their primary source of power enjoy the lowest electricity costs nationwide. Partly […]
27Apr

The Green Unreality Show

Via The Wall Street Journal: The climate deal negotiated in Paris and signed in New York Friday is not a treaty. It is not enforceable against the U.S. or anybody else. It waves vaguely at the idea of a $100 billion adjustment fund for poorer countries, to be filled in later by somebody else, maybe. […]
27Apr

Blue States See Red Over EPA’s Costly Power Plan

April 27, 2016 Virginia and Minnesota, two states run by Democratic administrations, are seeing red over Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). In Virginia, the House of Delegates voted to forbid the Department of Environmental Quality from spending state money to implement the CPP. In defiance of its governor and the president, Virginia’s legislators refused […]
26Apr

Coal Company Sues EPA To Stop A Regulation That Will Close More Coal Plants

Via The Daily Caller:  The Environmental Protection agency may be headed into federal court to once again defend its controversial mercury rule from a legal challenge — being brought, this time, by the coal company Murray Energy. Murray Energy sued EPA over its mercury rule for power plants the day it was published in the […]
25Apr

Obama Targets Electric Grid for Power Grab

Via Newsmax:  The carbon-caused climate crisis cabal must be absolutely giddy that President Obama has made good on his pledge that “if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant,” policies of his regime “will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.” He fulfilled […]
22Apr

Paris Agreement Ignores Role of Clean Coal Technology in Addressing Global Warming, Energy Poverty

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn commented on today’s climate change agreement signing ceremony in New York City: “What is missing from the administration’s celebratory rhetoric surrounding the Paris agreement is that its own plan for addressing global warming – aside from being stopped by the Supreme Court for its questionable legality […]
21Apr

Daines to EPA: Your Regulations are Killing Montana Jobs

Senator Steve Daines today took Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) Gina McCarthy to task on the EPA’s Power Plan all-fronts assault on affordable energy and good-paying union and tribal jobs. During today’s Senate Committee on Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Daines challenged McCarthy to quantify the impacts of the anti-energy regulations […]
21Apr

VA Lawmakers Block Funding for Climate Rule Compliance

Via E&E Publishing:  Virginia’s General Assembly yesterday blocked funding for the state environment agency to work on ways of fulfilling a federal mandate to cut greenhouse gas emissions. In a move decried by environmental groups, the Virginia House of Delegates yesterday pushed forward language in the state budget stating that the Department of Environmental Quality […]