12Oct

CAP Report on Coal Leasing Recycles Garbage

October 12, 2016 With its most recent screed against the federal coal leasing program, the Center for American Progress (CAP) continues to squander what little remains of its reputation for objective, credible policy analysis. Instead, this report recycles politically contrived conclusions based on a deeply flawed understanding of a program that in the past decade […]
11Oct

A Costly Power Plan Has Its Day in Court

Via Morning Consult: Last month, a federal appeals court heard arguments regarding President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. At issue is whether the CPP represents a lawful effort to rein in carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power sector. While the Environmental Protection Agency has proudly touted this plan to tackle “carbon pollution,” a closer look […]
10Oct

Clean Power Plan Puts States’ Rights on Trial

Via Newsmax: A pending District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruling will determine within the next several months whether the Obama administration’s latest and arguably most dangerous federal government usurpation of state regulatory authority under the Constitution will succeed. On Sept. 27, ten judges heard oral arguments in a consolidated case known as West Virginia, […]
08Oct

SAD TESTIMONY: I’m A Coal Miner, And The EPA Killed My Job

Via The Daily Caller: A little more than a year ago, Bo Copley lost his job working as a maintenance planner for a West Virginia coal company. The reason: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, he told federal lawmakers. “Just slightly over 1 year ago, I was notified that my services were no longer required, due […]
07Oct

Guest Opinion: Court Should Limit EPA’s Power

Via The Billings Gazette: Last week, an appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard a case that will determine whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to require states to restructure the electric grid. At issue is the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which would expand the power of the federal government immensely, cost thousands of […]
06Oct

Fate of Clean Power Plan Likely Rests with Supreme Court

Via Electric Light & Power: A panel of legal experts told a Bipartisan Policy Center forum Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C., that whatever happens with the D.C. Circuit they expect the legal dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency Clean Power Plan will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The legal experts, split evenly […]
05Oct

Capito Highlights Local Impact of Anti-Coal Regulations

Via The Williamson Daily News: LOGAN, W.Va. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee’s Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee, chaired a field hearing in Southern West Virginia focused on the local impacts of EPA’s climate regulations. Senator Capito released this statement following […]
05Oct

Coal Country Gets a Chance to Testify About the Impact of Climate Policies

Via West Virgina MetroNews: A favored tactic of radical environmentalists is to characterize anyone who questions their orthodoxy as “climate change deniers,” suggesting that those who dare to raise concerns about the impact of draconian climate policies are all part of some flat earth society. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a favorite of the environmental left who […]
03Oct

Why Does Obama Want to End Coal Use?

Via The Journal: After reading that Governor Tomblin is investing $1 million to provide green jobs for former coal miners, I wonder how may workers would just prefer to keep mining coal to feed their families. Thanks largely to over regulation, coal is not allowed to compete in a fair and open marketplace with other […]