Coal in the News

07Feb

New EPA Rules Will Kill Wisconsin Jobs

Harsh Midwest winters have a tendency to make Wisconsinites’ electricity bills jump quite a bit, but that is not the only thing that will increase our bills if the Environmental Protection Agency gets its way. Recently proposed rules by the EPA, expected to be finalized this summer, would sharply limit carbon emissions at coal-fired power […]
06Feb

Standing Up to the EPA

The West Virginia Legislature is considering bills (HB 2004 and SB 4) that would give lawmakers oversight for how the state Department of Environmental Protection plans to meet the federal EPA’s sweeping plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, states must submit plans for reducing carbon emissions using “building blocks” established […]
05Feb

Michigan Still Runs on Coal

For some time now, the Obama administration has been trying to force through a climate change policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions from electricity production, particularly coal-fired power plants. Regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency could force states to shut down hundreds of coal plants and shift to natural gas and renewable energy. Michigan […]
04Feb

Expert Says EPA Plan Will Kill Mississippians

Former Environmental Protection Agency regulator David Schnare urged Mississippi lawmakers to defy a federal rule requiring states to implement sweeping greenhouse-gas reduction plans, calling it both costly and illegal. Lawmakers have until today to accept his challenge, but it’s unclear whether they’ll do so. Schnare, a noted climate-change denier, appeared Monday before a joint legislative […]
03Feb

Which States Face Most Risk from EPA Rules?

Electric cooperatives and public power utilities in West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Arizona face the greatest challenges in meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon dioxide rules. “Many public power utilities already near the top of what’s affordable for customers could face backlash to raise electricity rates further. However, not raising rates comes at […]
02Feb

Official Says EPA Carbon Emission Goals Proposed For Arizona Are Too Harsh

WASHINGTON – Blistering summer temperatures are already hard enough on Arizona, but they could become even more of a challenge if the state is required to meet carbon emission reductions proposed by the federal government, a state official said Thursday. “The fact is that it gets hot in Arizona. There are periods in the summer […]
31Jan

Obama’s EPA Rules for Power Plants Will Hurt Everyone, Badly

The impending EPA rules on electric power plants will hit you hard. They will cause our electricity to go up, and will cost thousands of jobs in the state. They will lower incomes and make everything cost more. So says a new study just released by the Civitas Institute. Brian Balfour writes: New rules by the Environmental […]
30Jan

State Utility Reps Wary of EPA’s Coming Carbon Rules

Utility and state agency representatives at a legislative hearing expressed concern over the potential costs of a proposed EPA rule to cut carbon emissions from power plants and said reduction goals in the plan fail to account for progress the state has already made. The EPA rule, the final version of which is expected to be […]
29Jan

The Clean Power Plan’s Dirty Secret

The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it would finalize three enormous rules regulating carbon emissions this summer, as a part of the Obama administration’s plan to implement an ideological, environmentalist agenda. One rule in particular, the Clean Power Plan, would have a devastating effect on America’s electricity industry and the U.S. economy. The generation and retail provision […]
28Jan

Coal Outlook Hardened by Administration’s Policies

The difficult adjustments that domestic coal operators are making in a rapidly evolving energy market have been made “immeasurably more difficult” for their employees and mine communities by reckless federal regulations, said Hal Quinn, president and CEO of the National Mining Association (NMA). Addressing the annual energy outlook conference of the U.S. Energy Association last week […]