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EPA Accused of ‘Scare Tactic’ on Clean Power Plan Stay

Via Bloomberg BNA:  Suggestions that the Environmental Protection Agency might not extend the deadlines in its Clean Power Plan, should the rule ultimately be upheld following a lengthy judicial stay, are a “scare tactic” to force states to continue their preparations, opponents of the rule testified June 9. The EPA’s insistence on moving forward with […]

Showers But With a Chance of Sun

Via World Coal:  The current state of the US coal industry is a microcosm of a global market for coal still ailing from unfavourable macroeconomic trends. This year will extend a difficult period of capacity adjustments that US producers are making to align production with more modest demand scenarios. US coal production, last year, was […]

EPA’s Clean Power Plan Could Cost Alabama Seniors

Via AL.com: For years, the most radical environmental groups have promoted a keep it in the ground ideology. This thinking, which aims to keep all fossil fuels literally in the ground seemed so far out there, so obviously incompatible with our energy needs and standard of living, it was just laughed off. But this fringe […]

GOP, Some States Press EPA for Answers on Implementation Plans

Senators yesterday took up the question of whether U.S. EPA can work on guidelines related to the Clean Power Plan while the program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants is frozen by the Supreme Court. In the last few months, EPA has continued to work on an incentive program to credit states for […]

GOP Senator: EPA Could Restructure Every Industry if Clean Power Plan Survives

Via The Washington Examiner:  A top Senate Republican is warning that the Environmental Protection Agency will try to restructure every industry in the country if it can successfully defend its Clean Power Plan in court. The Clean Power Plan is President Obama’s signature environmental regulation on new and existing coal and power plants and has […]

NMA Urges States to Put Pencils Down on Clean Power Plan

“There are many good reasons why states should suspend any effort to implement the administration’s costly power plan. The biggest reason is the Supreme Court’s decision that, for all practical purposes, voids the rule until the appropriate legal review determines its dubious legality. The Supreme Court has relieved the nation’s governors of any obligation to […]

EPA Ignores What Senate Will Hear Tomorrow on Clean Power Plan

June 8, 2016 It took a Freedom of Information Act request to pry real “transparency” out of EPA.  In contrast to the agency’s public utterances, confidential emails reported last week showed EPA’s alarming reaction to the Feb. 9 Supreme Court ruling that stayed the agency’s Clean Power Plan. “This is very obviously disappointing, and we […]

Coal’s Competition Shouldn’t Include the Federal Government

Via The Edmund Sun:  Who can deny the value of competition? In sports, the world’s greatest athletes go toe-to-toe and make each other better. In business, competition rewards innovative ideas and helps entrepreneurs flourish. In both instances, consumers benefit. But not when the federal government skews the rules. That’s what’s happening with U.S. energy policy […]

Coal Remains Dominant as Electric Power Source

Via The Register-Herald: Domestic energy use dropped slightly between 2014 and 2015, according to a report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Overall, the nations energy usage dropped about one half of one percent, from 98.2 quadrillion British thermal units in 2014 to 97.7 in 2015. EIA data shows natural gas and petroleum were the […]