Coal in the News

10Aug

Clean Power Plan Misses Its Mark

Via Greenville Online: South Carolina faces a financial body-blow due to the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. This plan would require a 30 percent reduction of carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants by 2030. To achieve its emissions-reduction goal, EPA is aiming to eventually phase out coal-generated power. While coal power plants are our […]
10Aug

We’re Laying You Off to Save the Earth

Via One News Now: As explained by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the Clean Power Plan aims to cut carbon pollution from the power sector by 32 percent. “All while keeping energy reliable and affordable,” she claims. “It is the worst regulation that I certainly have ever seen come down, on the power industry anyway,” responds […]
10Aug

Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ Punishes Workers, Consumers and States

Via The National Review: President Obama’s Clean Power Plan for existing and new power plants stretches to a combined 2,328 pages, exclusive of supporting documents and fact sheets. The language is Orwellian, with talk of “a partnership between the EPA and the states under which the EPA establishes emission guidelines and the states take the lead on implementing them […]
10Aug

Climate Fight Shifts to Courts

Via The Hill: States, energy companies and business groups are preparing to sue the Obama administration over its new climate rule, viewing it as their bet shot at stopping the regulations while President Obama is still in office. With Congress largely powerless to stop the rule, opponents of Obama’s push say the court system is […]
09Aug

EPA Rules Aim to ‘Decarbonize’ the Grid

Via The Washington Examiner: The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to “de-carbonize” the country’s energy system by 2030 with a suite of new rules for power plants, hurting the long-term viability of both coal and natural gas plants. The EPA on Monday finalized the rules, which include the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President […]
07Aug

Pence Vows to Fight EPA Rules

Via The South Bend Tribune: INDIANAPOLIS — Republican Gov. Mike Pence vowed Monday to “vigorously” fight President Barack Obama’s recently finalized plan to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the U.S. over the next 15 years. “Here in Indiana, homeowners and businesses rely on coal-burning power plants,” Pence said in a statement. […]
07Aug

The Cynicism of the Clean Power Plan

Via The National Review: If you want to irritate promoters of the Clean Power Plan, just state the obvious: It’s going to increase electricity prices, and that will be bad for the poor and the middle class. Last Monday, I made that very point during an interview on KPCC radio in Los Angeles, (“Air Talk with Larry […]
07Aug

AG Strange: Obama’s Latest Radical Environmentalist EPA Rule Will Cost 16,000 Alabama Jobs (Opinion)

Via Yellowhammer News: President Obama just announced the latest step in a radical environmentalist agenda that has already given us the Solyndra boondoggle, wasted billions on green energy projects that do not work, and threatened the jobs of everyone who relies on the coal industry. But his Environmental Protection Agency’s newest raft of top-down regulations […]
07Aug

President’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ Meets Strong Criticism In Montana

Via Montana Public Radio: The plan the White House unveiled today to reduce carbon dioxide emissions nationwide is meeting with strong and broad criticism in Montana. That includes Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, who issued a statement today saying he’s “extremely disappointed” in the White House’s Clean Power Plan, because the White House “moved the goal post.” […]
06Aug

Obama’s Clean Power Plan Faces Opposition from Black, Hispanic Leaders

Via The Washington Times: The White House’s carbon emissions regulations have opened a major rift between President Obama and some black and Hispanic leaders who fear the climate change policies will drive up poverty in low-income areas, kill jobs and raise electricity rates for families that can least afford it. Days after the Environmental Protection Agency released […]