02Jul

Editorial: Supreme Court Hands EPA a Welcome Rebuke

Via The Charleston Daily Mail: The Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week that the Environmental Protection Agency did not properly consider economic costs in its Mercury and Air Toxic Standards rule is rightly being hailed as a needed rebuke to an out-of-control administrative agency. The MATS rule, requiring coal-burning power plants to reduce emissions of substances like […]
01Jul

EPA Raked Over The Coals

Via The American Spectator:  Consumers and businesses won big on Monday, when the Supreme Court struck down an Environmental Protection Agency regulation on coal plant emissions because the EPA failed to consider whether the costs outweighed the benefits. Not the cost to government, mind you. The cost to us, as consumers and business owners, to […]
30Jun

Ratepayer Protection Act: Welcomed Move by U.S. House

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: The passage last week of the Ratepayer Protection Act in the U.S. House of Representatives is another welcomed step in the ongoing efforts by the new Republican majority in Washington — with help from some Democrats — to stop the crippling war on coal that the Obama administration has been […]
29Jun

Supreme Court to EPA: Power Plant Regs Do ‘More Harm Than Good’

Via The Examiner: In a stinging rebuke to the climate legacy Obama is desperately seeking to create, the Supreme Court ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to consider the costs of certain regulations, which actually did ‘more harm than good.’ In its 5-4 vote ruling, the Court said the EPA failed to take costs into account […]
29Jun

Supreme Court Blocks Obama’s Limits on Power Plants

Via The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Courton Monday blocked one of the Obama administration’s most ambitious environmental initiatives, one meant to limit emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 decision, joined by the court’s more conservative members. Industry groups […]
29Jun

Court’s Decision on EPA Rule a Win for Common Sense

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn said the Supreme Court’s decision today in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA vindicates growing demands for common sense rulemaking from the Environmental Protection Agency: “Today’s decision by the Supreme Court is a vindication of common sense that is missing in much of the administration’s regulatory […]
28Jun

A Worthy But Uphill Fight Against the EPA

Via The News-Sentinel:  One more area in which the federal government has gotten too powerful. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has written a letter to President Obama telling him Indiana won’t comply with pending federal rules restricting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants unless major revisions are made. Environmentalists say this snubbing of the Environmental Protection […]
26Jun

Coal Industry Urges White House to Change Rules for New Power Plants

Via The Washington Examiner: The coal industry is pressing the White House to hit the reset button on strict new power plant regulations that critics argue would ban the construction of new coal plants. The National Mining Association, representing the coal industry, met with White House officials last week to discuss an industry proposal to […]
26Jun

Editorial: Legislators Push Back Against EPA Power Grab

Via The Charleston Daily Mail: As the Environmental Protection Agency continues to exert regulatory pressure on West Virginia and other coal-producing states, elected officials here and elsewhere are putting some pressure of their own on the EPA. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan, requiring states to cut emissions by 30 percent before 2030, is expected to […]