31Aug

Washington’s Fall Agenda: EPA to Focus on New Power Plant, Water Rules

Via The Hill:  Federal officials will be hard at work throughout the fall, moving forward with high-profile actions to implement President Trump’s agenda to dismantle major environmental regulations, boost fossil fuel production and streamline protections for endangered species. Rather than follow the pattern of a typically slow August bookended by congressional recesses, the Environmental Protection Agency […]
31Aug

How About Now?

Like a snowball tumbling downhill, the reliability crisis is only picking up steam. Despite the continuous and ever-louder warnings that we are quickly approaching a point of no return, regulators and grid operators have brushed aside concerns and spoken in platitudes about protecting a free market that is anything but free. Just how much longer […]
29Aug

EPA Head: New Coal Plant Plan Will ‘Level the Playing Field

Via The Hill:  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Tuesday said that the administration’s newly proposed alternative to the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) will “level the playing field” for coal plants in an era where renewable fuels and liquid natural gas are growing in prominence. Speaking at an Ohio Chamber of Commerce event, Wheeler praised […]
29Aug

Switching to Gas Power Plants More Expensive than Coal, Study Says

Via The Tribune Star: A recent study for the mining industry found the cost of shutting down coal-fired power plants and replacing them with gas-fired plants would far exceed the cost of maintaining the coal plants. The study by Arlington, Virginia-based Energy Ventures Analysis involved three plants located in the nation’s largest wholesale electricity market. […]
27Aug

Trump Ends Obama’s War on Coal

Via The Washington Examiner: Last week’s announcement from the Trump administration, on the EPA’s new Affordable Clean Energy Plan to replace the Clean Power Plan, is another welcome addition to President Trump’s list of promises fulfilled that benefit American workers. The American economy has long languished under burdensome, radical regulations imposed by the Obama administration. […]
27Aug

Fixing Clean Power Plan is Sensible First Step

Via The Huntington Herald-Dispatch: Washington loves controversy. And critics are undoubtedly clucking right now about the Trump administration’s plan to replace the Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a modified effort. But the administration deserves credit for updating the plan, rather than scrapping it entirely. For starters, the CPP envisioned by President Obama represented a massive […]
27Aug

Trump’s Coal Plan Works for West Virginia

Via The Journal: Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it followed through on President Donald Trump’s executive order to review and repeal the Clean Power Plan. From its inception, the CPP was a total overreach of the federal bureaucracy. That’s why West Virginia led 24 states in fighting the rule in court, arguing […]
23Aug

Fixing the Clean Power Plan is Sensible First Step

Via The Piqua Daily Call: Washington loves controversy. And critics are undoubtedly clucking right now about the Trump administration’s plan to replace the Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a modified effort. But the administration deserves credit for updating the plan, rather than scrapping it entirely. For starters, the CPP envisioned by President Obama represented a […]
22Aug

From Illegal Overreach to Thoughtful Restraint

The Obama administration’s environmental agenda can be neatly summed up by the word “overreach.” No order from the administration better defined this overreach than the Clean Power Plan (CPP), better known as the Costly Power Plan. It was nothing if not ambitious. With one stroke, President Obama’s EPA shrugged off 45 years of legal interpretation […]
22Aug

Trump Administration Proposes Rule to Relax Carbon Limits on Power Plants

Via The Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency officially put forward on Tuesday its proposal for replacing the Clean Power Plan, the heart of President Barack Obama’s efforts to curb greenhouse gases from the nation’s power plants. But folded into the Trump administration’s latest rollback is a change to a permitting program little known outside of industries that have to contend with it, such as the power […]