03Feb

NMA Supports Senate Measures to Block OSM’s “Rule in Search of a Purpose”

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn today praised a Senate oversight hearing for exposing the fatal flaws in the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement’s (OSM) so-called Stream Protection Rule (SPR) and urged passage of legislation to block its implementation: “The SPR is a massive rule in search of a purpose. […]
03Feb

Coal States Challenge Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Daily Signal: CHARLESTON, W.Va.—The Mountain State has its back against the wall, and time is running out. Leading a coalition of more than two dozen coal states, West Virginia is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of President Obama’s new regulations governing the coal industry. West Virginia and 26 other states […]
02Feb

Protecting Coal Mining From the Stream Protection Rule

Via The Cato Institute Blog:  On Wednesday, February 3, the Senate Environment and Public Works committee will hold a hearing on a new “Stream Protection Rule” being proposed by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) that looks to be another nail being hammered into the coal industry’s coffin by the Obama […]
02Feb

Coal Generation Plays Key Role in Midwest

Via The State Journal-Register: A recent article in the SJ-R stated a national figure for coal-powered generation of 30 percent. While that may be true nationally, it is not valid for the Midwest. Coal generation in the MISO (Mid-Continent Independent System Operator) area provides 50 percent to 60 percent of the energy used in this […]
01Feb

Obama on Coal Mining a Throwback to Jimmy Carter

Via The Washington Times. President Obama’s plot to use the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to kill federal coal mining with a thousand paper cuts is not the first time he has used NEPA to try to end energy development. Disturbingly, his scheme is a throwback to President Carter and a decade-long moratorium that ended […]
29Jan

States Seek Delay Of EPA Clean Power Plan

Via The Wheeling News-Register: WASHINGTON (AP) – A coalition of 25 states opposing President Obama’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop the new regulations from taking effect until after their legal challenge is resolved. West Virginia and Texas led the group of mostly Republican states that asked […]
28Jan

States Challenge Obama’s ‘Clean’ Power Play

Via The Patriot Post: With the June 30 deadline looming for states to submit plans to the EPA showing how they will comply with Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), 29 states and state agencies — along with 60 utility companies or energy industry trade groups — have taken their opposition directly to the chief […]
28Jan

Will Courts Step in to Squelch EPA Overreach?

Via The Exponent-Telegram: West Virginia and 24 other states, trying to stave off the potential economic disaster that looms if the EPA’s Clean Power Plan is implemented, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene immediately to keep the regulations from being implemented. Their action comes after the U.S. District Appeals Court based in Washington, D.C., […]
27Jan

Wisconsin, Coal-reliant States Ask Supreme Court to Block EPA Carbon Rule

Via The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:   A coalition of coal-mining and coal-reliant states including Wisconsin filed a request with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to block President Barack Obama’s landmark climate change regulation from taking effect. The coalition sought an emergency stay from the nation’s highest court, just days after a federal appeals court in Washington […]
27Jan

Alabama Among 25 States Asking Supreme Court to Delay EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via AL.com: Alabama joined 24 other states Tuesday in petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to halt implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan while legal challenges to the law move forward. Alabama was among the states that filed suit challenging the CPP on the day it was published in the Federal Register, but an appeals court this week denied […]