09Jul

Supreme Court Decision Could Resurrect Coal Plants

Via The Washington Examiner:  The Supreme Court’s decisive blow against the Environmental Protection Agency’s pollution rules could bring coal-fired power plants back from the brink. But not before a lot more legal action that could take months to wrap up. The high court on Monday ruled 5-4 that the EPA cannot simply ignore compliance costs […]
08Jul

State Utility Commissions Should Fight the Clean Power Plan

Via The St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  In my six years of service on the Missouri Public Service Commission, I fought hard to keep electricity rates affordable and stable for the people of Missouri. But the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Power Plan threatens to unravel years of hard work by myself and other state commissioners and […]
08Jul

Stopping EPA Uber Alles

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court scolded the Environmental Protection Agency last week for bombing Dresden, albeit long after the bombs fell. In 2011, the year the EPA proposed the anticarbon mercury rule that the Court has now ruled illegal, some 1,500 fossil-fuel-fired electric units were in operation. Only about 100 have not […]
07Jul

Walker, Jindal Poised to Stonewall EPA on New Climate Regulations

Via Hot Air: When the EPA lost their case against Michigan in the Supreme Court last month, we talked about how the administration can win even when they lose. They manage this by setting deadlines for regulatory compliance which arrive far faster than a challenge can make its way through the court system. Then, by the […]
07Jul

Forum: The EPA vs. Connecticut’s Minorities

Via The New Haven Register: With the Obama administration only two months away from releasing its so-called “Clean Power Plan,” much debate has focused on the supposed benefits of cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years. Lost amid the rhetoric, however, is the economic hardship it will impose on millions of working […]
06Jul

Republican Governors Signal Their Intent to Thwart Obama’s Climate Rules

Via The New York Times: WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepares to complete sweeping regulations aimed at tackling climate change, at least five Republican governors, including two presidential hopefuls, say they may refuse to carry out the rules in their states. The resistance threatens to ignite a fierce clash between federal and state authorities, miring the […]
06Jul

EPA Rules Would Hurt Lower-Income: My Word

Via the Orlando Sentinel:  I’m the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, co-founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many people forget that King advocated for poor families, regardless of their race or religion, and I believe that he would find it troubling today to see that millions of Americans are still struggling […]
05Jul

The Lesson We Should Take from Michigan v. EPA

Via Hot Air:  There was some partying taking place in the energy sector after the Supremes delivered their smackdown to the EPA on Monday, and rightly so. The overreach attempted by the agency which delivered a crushing economic blow to a large, vital segment of the nation’s infrastructure was a dark harbinger of things to […]
04Jul

Counterpoint: A Win for Power Plants and Consumers

Via The Chicago Sun-Times: Monday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding power plant emissions is a welcome vindication of common sense that is missing in much of the Obama administration’s regulatory actions.  The high court effectively put the nation’s regulator ­in ­chief on notice that ignoring the costs of its actions is neither reasonable nor appropriate […]
03Jul

Oklahoma Attorney General Challenges EPA’s Clean-Air Plan

Via kjrh.com: OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants would threaten the reliability and affordability of electricity and cause substantial economic injury to the state, Attorney General Scott Pruitt claims in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday. The lawsuit in federal court in Tulsa […]