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24Feb

WY & NE delegations Join the Fight Against Clean Power Plan

Via KGWN: Washington, DC – Today (2/23/16), U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis, all R-Wyo., joined a bipartisan group of 34 senators and 171 representatives in signing a friend-of-the-court brief supporting petitioners challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called Clean Power Plan. Senator Deb Fischer and Representative Adrian Smith […]
24Feb

The EPA’s Regulatory Terrorism

Via The Washington Times: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court recently stayed implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, a set of regulations that would have required the states to come up with plans designed to drastically reduce the use of coal as a source of energy for electric power generation. […]
24Feb

Boilermakers Union Leader Lambasts EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Offers Alternative

Via EP Newswire: Railing against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) doesn’t mean that Luke Voigt, business manager for Boilermakers Local 647, doesn’t have a viable option. “A better alternative to this plan would be to look into emerging technology, and build the newest and most modern technology in coal-fired generation,” Voigt […]
23Feb

Congress Backs Court Challenge to Obama’s Climate Plan

Via The Washington Post:  WASHINGTON — More than 200 members of Congress are backing a court challenge to President Barack Obama’s plan to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. A brief filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington argues that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its legal authority and defied the will of […]
23Feb

NMA Applauds Congressional Support for Stopping EPA’s Power Grab

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn issued this statement following today’s “friend of the court” brief by 34 senators and 171 congressmen urging the U.S. Court of Appeals to find the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan unlawful: “More than 200 members of Congress today joined more than half the states […]
23Feb

34 Senators, 171 Representatives File Amicus Brief, Urge Circuit Court to Block EPA Attempt to Transform the Nation’s Electricity Sector

WASHINGTON – Led by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), 34 Senators and 171 House Members filed an amicus brief today in the case of State of West Virginia, et al. […]
23Feb

EPA Global Warming Regulations Have Split The Country

Via The Daily Caller: The Environmental Protection Agency’s power plant regulations have split the country. President Barack Obama put tackling global warming at the top of his agenda in recent years, and the EPA has been more than happy to oblige and issued a sweeping set of regulations last year to cut carbon dioxide emissions […]
23Feb

Guest Column: Obama’s Clean Power Plan is Bad Deal for Our State

Via The Delaware County Daily Times: Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive Clean Power Plan. The court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs imposed by the plan until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge […]
22Feb

Why is Colorado Complying with EPA’s Costly Plan?

Via The Daily Sentinel:  Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive Clean Power Plan, The court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs imposed by the plan until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh […]
22Feb

Pence to Defy Coal Plant Rules

Via The Indianapolis Star: Indiana won’t come up with its own plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, even if a federal reduction requirement is upheld in court, Gov. Mike Pence said Saturday. The federal rule, known as the Clean Power Plan, recently was put on hold by the Supreme Court until legal challenges […]