11Aug

Experts Agree: Price Too High, Benefits too Low for EPA’s Costly Power Plan

Experts Agree: Price Too High, Benefits too Low for EPA’s Costly Power Plan Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final Clean Power Plan (CPP) – more appropriately labeled the “Costly Power Plan.”  As noted by National Mining Association President and CEO Hall Quinn, under the plan “American households and businesses will be forced […]
11Aug

KY Buyer’s Remorse On CPP: This Is Not What We Thought We Were Buying

Via E&E News: U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan will be so effective at incentivizing a shift to lower-carbon sources of power that the agency may never find it necessary to tighten its emissions limits, Administrator Gina McCarthy said today. Speaking at an event hosted by Resources for the Future, McCarthy said the existing power plant […]
10Aug

Industry, States Set to Fight EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules

Via The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—Industry representatives and a group of state attorneys general are preparing to file lawsuits soon to challenge Obama administration rules requiring significant cuts in power-plant carbon emissions. The move, expected in the coming weeks, would open up a legal battle by contesting the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency on […]
10Aug

Clean Power Plan Misses Its Mark

Via Greenville Online: South Carolina faces a financial body-blow due to the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. This plan would require a 30 percent reduction of carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants by 2030. To achieve its emissions-reduction goal, EPA is aiming to eventually phase out coal-generated power. While coal power plants are our […]
10Aug

We’re Laying You Off to Save the Earth

Via One News Now: As explained by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the Clean Power Plan aims to cut carbon pollution from the power sector by 32 percent. “All while keeping energy reliable and affordable,” she claims. “It is the worst regulation that I certainly have ever seen come down, on the power industry anyway,” responds […]
10Aug

Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ Punishes Workers, Consumers and States

Via The National Review: President Obama’s Clean Power Plan for existing and new power plants stretches to a combined 2,328 pages, exclusive of supporting documents and fact sheets. The language is Orwellian, with talk of “a partnership between the EPA and the states under which the EPA establishes emission guidelines and the states take the lead on implementing them […]
10Aug

Climate Fight Shifts to Courts

Via The Hill: States, energy companies and business groups are preparing to sue the Obama administration over its new climate rule, viewing it as their bet shot at stopping the regulations while President Obama is still in office. With Congress largely powerless to stop the rule, opponents of Obama’s push say the court system is […]
09Aug

EPA Rules Aim to ‘Decarbonize’ the Grid

Via The Washington Examiner: The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to “de-carbonize” the country’s energy system by 2030 with a suite of new rules for power plants, hurting the long-term viability of both coal and natural gas plants. The EPA on Monday finalized the rules, which include the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President […]
07Aug

Pence Vows to Fight EPA Rules

Via The South Bend Tribune: INDIANAPOLIS — Republican Gov. Mike Pence vowed Monday to “vigorously” fight President Barack Obama’s recently finalized plan to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the U.S. over the next 15 years. “Here in Indiana, homeowners and businesses rely on coal-burning power plants,” Pence said in a statement. […]
07Aug

The Cynicism of the Clean Power Plan

Via The National Review: If you want to irritate promoters of the Clean Power Plan, just state the obvious: It’s going to increase electricity prices, and that will be bad for the poor and the middle class. Last Monday, I made that very point during an interview on KPCC radio in Los Angeles, (“Air Talk with Larry […]