Coal in the News

11Feb

Obama/EPA Favorite Play Finally Stuffed

Via The West Virginia MetroNews: President Obama and his EPA have a favorite play when it comes to their green agenda; if you can’t get the people’s representatives to approve, just do it anyway. However, defenses are finally catching up to these unilateral end runs. Last March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Michigan v. […]
10Feb

Supreme Court Power Plant Stay A ‘Monumental Victory’ for the Rule of Law

Via BreitBart.com: West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says the Supreme Court’s decision to stay enforcement of the Obama administration’s “illegal” coal power plant regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency is an “unprecedented victory” for the rule of law. Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are lead plaintiffs for the more than two dozen […]
10Feb

Supreme Court Issues Stay on Clean Power Plan, Siding with Coalition of States

Via The West Virginia MetroNews: A blow to the Obama Administration’s and the federal EPA’s Clean Power Plan came down from the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. In a 5-4 decision, the Court issued a stay on the Power Plan, temporarily blocking its implementation while the case proceeds. State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey called the […]
10Feb

Supreme Court Blocks Obama Plan on Coal Emissions

Via WSAZ: WASHINGTON (AP & WSAZ) — The Supreme Court has agreed to halt enforcement of President Barack Obama’s sweeping plan to address climate change by regulating emissions from coal-fired power plants until after legal challenges are resolved. The surprising move on Tuesday is a blow to the administration and a victory for the coalition […]
10Feb

NMA Applauds High Court’s Stay of Clean Power Plan

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn issued the following statement following yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to grant the applications of NMA, Murray Energy, states and other parties to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan pending judicial review of the rule by the United States Court of Appeals […]
10Feb

The Supreme Court Just Delivered A Crippling Blow To Obama’s Global Warming Agenda

Via The Daily Caller: The U.S. Supreme Court just delivered a major blow to President Barack Obama’s global warming agenda by halting the implementation of a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation on carbon dioxide emissions. The court won’t allow the EPA to implement its so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP), which aims to reduce carbon […]
09Feb

Supreme Court Threatens Obama’s Climate Agenda

Via Politico:  President Barack Obama will leave office next January with the fate of one of his biggest environmental achievements hanging in the balance. The Supreme Court on Tuesday took the unusual step of blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark carbon rule for power plants, throwing into doubt whether Obama’s signature climate change initiative will […]
09Feb

W.Va, Other States File Reply in Clean Power Plan Stay Request

Via The West Virginia Record: West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, along with officials from 30 other states, told the U.S. Supreme Court in a filing last week their case against the Environmental Protection Agency is “truly extraordinary” and that the agency’s Clean Power Plan would impose the largest burden states have ever been asked […]
09Feb

Federal Regulators Now Feeling Pain of their War on Coal

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: The major business news stories of 2015 all featured the decline of the coal industry, as if we didn’t know. Along with the falling fortunes of the oil and gas industry, there have been few glad tidings this holiday season for anyone in the fossil energy sector, least of all for […]
09Feb

Clean Power Plan All Pain, No Gain

Via MySanAntonio.com: Imagine that your employer informs you that a 25 percent tax will be withheld from your paycheck, with that money going to help achieve world peace. While the sacrifice will be difficult, the cause is just and something you support, so you agree. You find out later, however, that yours is the only […]