Coal in the News

17Aug

Poll Shows Colorado Opposition to Clean Power Plan

Via The Complete Colorado:  Coloradans oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan when it comes to increases in electricity bills, effects on minority communities, and negligible effects on global temperatures or carbon emissions, a poll conducted by Magellan Strategies found. The poll was commissioned by the free market think tank, the Independence Institute.* Clear majorities of […]
17Aug

The EPA Plan and the High Cost of Symbolism

Via The Independent Record: Montanans better prepare for a tighter monthly budget, because if President Obama has his way, the electricity running through your home is about to get much more expensive. On Aug. 3, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a 1,560 page regulation called the “Clean Power Plan;” a convoluted “administrative rule” aimed […]
16Aug

EPA Mandates on Carbon Emissions Should be Challenged

Via The Colorado Statesman:  On Aug. 3 the Obama administration declared war on the Colorado economy. In the name of saving the planet from “climate change,” Coloradans will be required to pay sharply higher utility bills while restructuring our power generation plants to implement the costly – and likely unlawful – federal mandates for lower […]
14Aug

New EPA Rules Anything But Reasonable

Via WisOpinion.com: By Mike KuglitschThe column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. It’s hard to understand how anyone can conclude reasonableness when evaluating President Obama’s new plan to supposedly rein in carbon emissions. The so-called Clean Power Plan is poised to dramatically increase electricity costs in […]
14Aug

Winners and Losers in Obama’s New Plan to Limit Greenhouse Gas

Via The Loudon Times-Mirror: WASHINGTON — Calling it a moral obligation, President Barack Obama unveiled the final version of his plan to dramatically cut emissions from U.S. power plants, as he warned anew that climate change will threaten future generations if left unchecked.Touting the plan at a White House event Aug. 3, Obama said the […]
14Aug

Missouri Should Oppose Obama’s “Clean Power Plan”

Via The Missouri Times: By Senator David Sater, R-Cassville Early this week, President Obama announced his plans to use the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose more government control and regulation over U.S. carbon emissions. In a 1,560-page EPA rule, Obama is requiring power plants to reduce emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 […]
14Aug

EPA’s Global Warming Rule Will Kill Wisconsin Jobs

Via The Star: The federal Environmental Protection Agency issued its final global warming rule for coal-fired power plants recently. If allowed to go into effect, the rule will kill Wisconsin factory jobs and force families to pay more for their electricity. There are many reasons why the EPA’s rule is bad for Wisconsin and our […]
13Aug

Obama’s Climate Plan and Poverty

Via The Wall Street Journal: President Obama says that critics of his plan to decarbonize the economy are “the special interests and their allies in Congress” repeating “the same stale arguments” about “killing jobs and businesses and freedom.” He adds that “even more cynical, we’ve got critics of this plan who are actually claiming that […]
13Aug

What’s Next for the EPA’s ‘All pain, No Gain’ Clean Power Plan?

Via The Washington Examiner: The EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan is an illegal takeover of the electric power production sector and amounts to a national energy tax on all Americans. The administration’s goal is to force states to replace their current mix of low cost, reliable energy fuels with a higher cost mix of renewables […]
13Aug

What Will Obama’s Power Plan Do to the Grid?

Via Politico: Environmentalists cheered last week when President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency issued the country’s first-ever mandatory greenhouse gas standards for power plants. But an anxious power industry has also been warning: What about reliability? Any major shift in how America makes electricity, especially away from the reliable but high-carbon “baseline capacity” of coal, poses a threat to the crucial national power […]