Coal in the News

23May

Louisiana Leaders Should Fight EPA Overreach on Carbon Emissions

Via The Times-Picayune:  As state leaders meet in Baton Rouge for the legislative session, federal bureaucrats thousands of miles away are moving forward with an unprecedented incursion into Louisiana’s affairs. In just a few months, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize a rule requiring states to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions, with the goal of closing […]
22May

EPA’s Gift Horse – Governors Have A Better Choice

Via The Daily Caller: This spring, as coal companies, their employees and suppliers are hammered by a weak market, the Obama administration is proposing a new carbon rule to finish them off. While the coal industry is most exposed to the coming damage from EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the pain is coming for others too. […]
21May

Federal Coercion and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Atlantic: When Congress is deadlocked on some urgent issue, such as climate change, presidents often insist that they must be able to act, even if doing so means doing things that neither Congress nor the Constitution’s drafters ever explicitly authorized. But does the danger to be salved justify the danger of departing from […]
20May

EPA Power Grab Looks Like Obamacare Redux

Via The Washington Examiner: Everyone remembers former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ill-advised comment that the Affordable Care Act would have to pass so that the American people could find out what was in it. Unfortunately, what should have been a cautionary tale has instead been an object lesson in rulemaking for President Obama’s bureaucracy. Take, […]
19May

EPA and the Grid

Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: I wish to add some perspective to the May 5 letter “The EPA’s Plan Doesn’t Threaten Electrical Service.” The claim this title makes is patently false. PJM Interconnection is the electric grid operator for Pennsylvania and several surrounding states. The vast majority of baseload generation units in the PJM footprint are […]
18May

WV Lawmakers Show Support for Federal Measure to Roll Back Clean Power Plan

Via The State Journal: Several West Virginia lawmakers gathered May 18 to support the Affordable Reliable Energy Now Act, which aims to roll back proposed federal regulations on coal-fired power plants. Senate President Bill Cole, R-Mercer and Speaker of the House Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha, among several other lawmakers, came together at the Capitol to support the […]
16May

US Manufacturers’ Concerns About EPA Clean Power Plan

Via MetalMiner: MetalMiner interviewed Ross Eisenberg, Vice President, Energy and Resources Policy atNational Association of Manufacturers (NAM); Brett Smith, Sr. Director, Government Relations at American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI); Jennifer Diggins, Director, Public Affairs, Nucor Corp.; and Mark Pruitt, Principal at Power Bureau on why US manufacturers are concerned about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Clean Power Plan final rule going […]
15May

EPA’s Clean Power Act is all Pain, No Gain for Texas Economy, Energy Production

Via WacoTrib.com: Texas’ balanced energy portfolio is what drives our state’s economic growth and provides job security to millions. Texas energy jobs aren’t just in oil fields, mines and power plants. The affordable electricity rates provided by our diverse energy supply ensure that other employers, such as those in our vast manufacturing and technology industries, […]
14May

Will the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Save You Money or Clean Your Clock?

Via Watchdog.org:  By Rob Nikolewski │ Watchdog.org The Obama administration and theEnvironmental Protection Agency is on the verge of instituting a Clean Power Plan that would mark the first federal measure to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s existing power plants. The EPA says the new rules will save money in the long run, but a recent study comes to […]
14May

Senators Capito, Manchin Introduce Legislation to Roll Back EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via wvva.com: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee, today introduced a bill that will be the principal legislative vehicle in the Senate to rollback President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan.” A bipartisan group of six Senators joined Senator […]