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GOP Bill Blocking Obama Coal Rule Set to Hit House Floor

Via The Hill: A Republican bill to block a new Obama administration coal mining rule is due to the hit the floor soon. Rep. Alex Mooney’s (R-W.Va.) Supporting Transparent Regulatory and Environmental Actions in Mining Act would prevent the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) from finalizing the mining rule until it goes through an extra […]

Clean Power Plan Amounts to an Energy Tax

Via The Pueblo Chieftain:  The administration’s Clean Power Plan, announced by the White House last summer, defies both Congress and public opinion. Congress has repeatedly rejected costly plans to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and opinion polls consistently show voters won’t pay for them. The plan also defies common sense. Logic doesn’t support claims […]

War on U.S. Mining Reckless, Impractical

Via Lifezette.com: We’re seeing something very interesting of late from the Obama administration — an all-out war against America’s mining industries. It’s something the president appears to be undertaking with little thought to economics or practicality. At the recent UN climate talks in Paris, President Obama proudly trumpeted a “Clean Power Plan” that aims to […]

“War on Coal” Seen Behind Federal Mining Rules that Maryland is Opposing

Via The Baltimore Sun: Just a few years ago, Jack Ternent was selling chain, rope and cement to the coal mines in the mountains around his store — the kind of trade that propped up Western Maryland’s economy for more than a century. But as the coal industry has withered nationally, and in Maryland especially, […]

Report: EPA Regulations Pose Biggest Challenge to Keeping Nebraska’s Energy Costs Low

Via Omaha.com: Federal regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gases pose the biggest challenge to keeping electricity affordable in Nebraska, according to a report released Monday. The report, “Public Power: Is It Still Affordable?,” analyzed the state’s public power industry to determine its costs and benefits to taxpayers, consumers and businesses in the state. Ernie Goss, […]

The Fight Continues: Multi-state Coalition Challenging Obama

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined 25 other states last week in pressing for a stay of the Environmental Protection Agency’s crippling Clean Power Plan. The controversial anti-coal plan has already caused great harm here in the coalfields of southern West Virginia and […]

North Carolina Uses Unique Tactic Against New EPA Power Rule

Via ABC News:  Already among the two-dozen states suing to overturn new power plant emission rules, North Carolina is picking a separate fight with theEnvironmental Protection Agency by adopting a plan for compliance the agency is likely to reject. State officials hope that will create a shortcut to a federal appeals court and head off […]

Democrats Object to President Obama’s Climate Change Policies

Via Heartland.org: A coalition of hundreds of Democratic party officials and state and local office holders sent a letter to President Obama outlining their objections to his climate change policies.  In particular, in the letter the officials from 32 states take aim at the centerpiece of President Obama’s climate change agenda, the Clean Power Plan. […]

The EPA’s Scandalous December

Via The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency has been very, very naughty this Christmas. Lucky for the rogue agency, an especially boisterous December news cycle kept the EPA’s prolific misbehavior off the front pages. Nonetheless, the month saw several unrelated developments all involving unethical—and sometimes, possibly illegal—behavior at the EPA. The first bombshell emerged on […]

Morrisey Urges Stay of Clean Power Plan

Via The Register-Herald: Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday he has joined 25 other state attorneys general in pressing for a stay of the Clean Power Plan. “The (Environmental Protection Agency) keeps pushing these regulations out and in some respects, even if they don’t win in court, the damage will be done,” Morrisey said. If […]