Coal in the News

23Nov

Study: EPA’s Clean Power Plan Could Lead to Closure of Colstrip Plants

Via The Missoulian:  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, if enacted, could lead to the closure of the four-unit power-generating station in Colstrip, according to a study released last week by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana. “If you look at the emissions of Colstrip and the amount […]
20Nov

The EPA’s Plan to Destroy N. Dakota’s Coal Industry

Via The Dickinson Press:  The middle-aged man next to me said, “I’m going to lose my job at the mine.”  The big room at the Bismarck State College Energy Center was filled to standing room only for the public meeting explaining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Job loss for North Dakota workers […]
20Nov

Controversy Grows Over EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Pittsburgh Business Times:  Controversy is mounting over the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. The plan is designed to reduce carbon outputs from power plants and thereby reduce the United States’ impact on global climate change. But its regulatory requirements will force serious changes to occur among those connected to major forms of […]
20Nov

War On Coal Projected To Cost Us $650 Billion And 125,800 Jobs

Via Town Hall:  Obama’s war on coal has hit these communities hard. We all know that. In fact, there is “visceral disgust” for Obama’s environmental policies in the Appalachian counties that have long-supported Democrats since the New Deal. The shift towards the Republican Party was seen in Kentucky when Mitch McConnell easily won re-election over […]
19Nov

America Can’t Afford Obama’s New Energy Plan

Via The Marietta Daily Journal: President Obama will be leaving soon for a UN conference aimed at tackling global warming. And ahead of this trip, the president has announced a new “Clean Power Plan” to curb carbon dioxide emissions from America’s power plants. Such an effort may bolster the president’s credentials as a climate leader. […]
19Nov

We Must Save Colstrip and Block Double-digit Rate Hikes

Via The Great Falls Tribune: What happens if we lose Colstrip? “It’ll look like Ground Zero.” That’s what the mayor of Colstrip told me last week. To Colstrip moms like Cheryl Fulkerson, it means her husband and her son may both lose their jobs in the coal industry. And, it means the place that she […]
18Nov

State Should Tread Carefully with Clean Power Plan

Via The Times Leader: On Oct. 9, the Environmental Protection Agency received yet another legal slap on the wrist for its overreaching rule-making – this time on “Water of the United States,” an attempt to regulate water sources nationwide. Eighteen states joined in petitioning the Sixth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals to review […]
18Nov

Viewpoint: EPA’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost Colorado Consumers and Stunt the State’s Growth

Via The Denver Business Journal:  Wide-ranging voices—in politics, in business, and those of consumer advocates like our coalition—have been warning of the potentially crippling costs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s soon-to-be-implemented Clean Power Plan. Its ripple effects will be felt nationwide, and Colorado is by all indications squarely in harm’s way. As we have […]
18Nov

Obama’s Clean Power Plan is a Bad Deal for America

Via The Hill: In 2009, President Obama turned his attention from his campaign victory to a carefully crafted legislative wish list, handed to him by liberal lobbyists and the radical base of the Democratic Party. Among their top priorities were extreme carbon-trading schemes and a war on fossil fuel. Despite the president’s personal popularity, his […]
18Nov

North Dakota Believes it’s Being Singled Out in EPA Clean Power Plan

Via Prairie Public News:  Everyone knows North Dakota is an oil state. But it’s the state’s coal industry that’s feeling the heat from the federal Clean Power Plan, which targets carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Under the final version of the plan, North Dakota will have to cut its emissions by 45 percent – […]