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29Mar

Costly Clean Power Plan a Bad Deal for State

Via The Free Lance-Star: The Supreme Court just hit the brakes on President Obama’s climate agenda. The court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants by 32 percent by 2030, should have been an important win for Virginia’s consumers. So far, […]
23Mar

Kentucky Rep. Hal Rogers Faults EPA Chief for Coal’s Decline

Via Kentucky.com: The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency got an earful Tuesday from a senior Kentucky lawmaker who blames EPA regulations for costing coal jobs in his district. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy came to Capitol Hill to testify about her agency’s 2017 budget request, which includes $50 million to implement regulations that could lead […]
23Mar

Jenkins Grills EPA Chief on Coal Position

Via The Register-Herald: Rep. Evan Jenkins joined a chorus of Republican lawmakers Tuesday bemoaning the Environmental Protection Agency’s policies concerning coal and the impact those regulations are having on local economies. Jenkins joined other coal-state Republicans in grilling EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, as she appeared before the House Appropriations sub-committee to defend the agency’s 2017 budget request, […]
22Mar

More Threats Looming for Kentucky Coal

Via The Courier-Journal: The Obama administration’s assault on the nation’s coal producers took a remarkable turn recently.  The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay against the president’s massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), blocking the new program until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh of relief from the 27 states suing […]
22Mar

States Still Face a War on Coal from the Obama Administration

Via The Williamson Daily News: The Obama Administration’s assault on the nation’s coal producers took a remarkable turn recently. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay against the president’s massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), blocking the new program until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh of relief from the […]
22Mar

EPA Lacks Authority on Clean Power Plan

Via The Las Vegas Sun: On March 10, Democratic state Sen. Pat Spearman wrote in the Sun that the Office of the Attorney General, where I serve, defied “bipartisan” hopes for Nevada’s clean-energy future by filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the Clean Power Plan lawsuit. This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ambition to […]
21Mar

House GOP to Continue Drumbeat Against Stream Protection Rule

Via E&E Publishing: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Director Joseph Pizarchik will be back in the House this week for another round of Republican tongue-lashing. The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will be the second House panel this month to question the economic impact of his agency’s controversial rulemakings. […]
21Mar

Court-Mandated Halt of Administration’s Anti-Coal Regulation Shows Merits of ‘Wait and See’ Approach

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote to the nation’s governors today regarding the Supreme Court’s recent nationwide stay of the Obama Administration’s so-called “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) – a massive regulatory plan that will not have a meaningful impact on global emissions but will punish states’ most vulnerable citizens and ship […]
07Mar

Cutting Off Coal a Terrible Policy

Via The Las Vegas Review-Journal: Coal is our most abundant and economical resource for producing electricity, and methods have been created to burn it much more cleanly. But President Barack Obama’s anti-fossil fuel fixation threatens to not only raise energy costs, but also do major damage to the coal industry and our economy. As Mark […]
03Mar

Rogers to OSM Director: Coalfields Need Regulatory Relief

As Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Congressman Hal Rogers submitted the following statement for the fiscal year 2017 budget hearing for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement: “Mr. Chairman, thank you for yielding. Director Pizarchik, I appreciate you taking the time to be here today. Welcome to the Interior subcommittee. “Yesterday, Secretary Jewell […]