03Sep

EPA’s Price Tag for Carbon Regulations: 34,000 Jobs

Via The U.S. Chamber of Commerce:  EPA’s Clean Power Plan isn’t so much a “War on Coal,” as it is a war on coal workers. Sam Batkins at the American Action Forum is doing a deep read on EPA’s carbon regulations. He points out that EPA expects electricity generated by coal to drop by nearly half–48%–from 336 […]
03Sep

Marco Rubio Jabs Obama in New Energy Policy Speech

Via CNN: As President Barack Obama highlights climate change and his energy agenda in Alaska this week, Marco Rubio, a Republican hoping to take his place, is using the opportunity to ding the President to spotlight his own energy policy ideas in the Midwest. The Florida senator on Wednesday gave a speech on energy in […]
02Sep

Electric Grid Reliability Fears Remain in Wake of Climate Rule

Via Morning Consult: Stakeholders and government officials are unsure about whether the Obama administration’s legacy climate rule will threaten the electric grid, according to the ISO/RTO Council, whose members include independent systems operators and regional transmission organizations. Critics of the power plant emissions rules have long held that the Clean Power Plan, which aims to […]
01Sep

EPA’s Clean Power Fraud

Via The Washington Times: By Paul Driessen  The Environmental Protection Agency has twisted 280 words in the Clean Air Act into 2,690 pages of Clean Power Plan regulations and appendices. The Clean Power Plan requires that states slash their utility-sector carbon-dioxide emissions an average of 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. At least 12 […]
01Sep

Report: Obama Coal Plan Will Boost Electricity Bills 16%, Drive Companies Offshore

Via The Washington Examiner: By PAUL BEDARD As President Obama jetted to Alaska Monday to talk up his climate change plans, burning through nearly 17,000 gallons of fuel, a new report showed that his “Clean Power Plan” will increase consumer electric bills 16 percent and speed plans by job-creating manufacturers to flee America’s high fuel costs. The […]
31Aug

EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Europe’s Folly

Via The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Clean Power Plan (CPP) to reduce carbon dioxide pulls a colossally damaging and futile national energy plan out of a bureaucrat’s hat. Who needs congressional authorization by law to dismember the engineering marvel that is our national electric power system? The EPA “architects” may have lots […]
28Aug

Clean Power Plan Could Have Big Impact on Rural Areas of Missouri

Via Lake News Online: In a state that relies heavily on coal to produce the majority of electricity used by consumers, the Environmental Protection Agency’s final rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions will have a significant impact on rates and jobs and could determine who can keep their lights on and their homes cool.  These rules, […]
28Aug

The Clean Power Plan — Condensed

“Now we have standards for carbon pollution[;] for the first time in history, the Clean Power Plan sets those limits.” -U.S. EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy On August 3, 2015, President Obama announced the release of the final “Clean Power Plan,” the first nation-wide program designed to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by the […]
27Aug

EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations Will Raise Costs for Steel Industry

Via The Cleveland Plain Dealer: The steel industry in the U.S. is subject to substantial international competition, often against steel producers in countries where energy costs are subsidized.  Access to reliable and affordable energy supplies – especially electricity – is therefore critical to maintaining the domestic industry’s competitiveness. New EPA greenhouse gas regulations for electricity […]
26Aug

Clean Power Plan Will Hammer Nevada seniors

Via The Las Vegas Review-Journal: Ronald Reagan once said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Sadly, Reagan is being proved right once again by a sweeping new plan that the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to impose on the states. In […]