20Oct

Judge Tells EPA to Calculate Job Losses From its Rules

Via West Virginia MetroNews: One of the recurring debates over climate change policy is whether the EPA’s regulatory actions to control carbon emissions have caused the decline in the coal industry. Coal critics typically attribute the industry’s collapse  to natural gas becoming more plentiful and cheap and, in West Virginia’s case, the increased cost of […]
19Oct

Time for Court to Limit EPA’s power Over Electricity

Via The Great Falls Tribune: Late last month, 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 […]
19Oct

STEYER V PODESTA on Renewables

October 19, 2016 In the latest round of personal email leaks, energy policy jumped into the headlines with an interesting exchange between renewable energy bankroller Tom Steyer and renewable energy advocate and current Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. Last summer Steyer told The New York Times he couldn’t support any presidential candidate who refused to […]
19Oct

Judge Forces EPA To Count How Many Coal Miners It Forced Out Of Work

Via The Daily Caller: A federal judge ruled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must study how many coal industry workers have been laid off due to federal environmental regulations. U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey gave EPA two weeks to come up with a way to measure job losses from air pollution regulations, including a […]
18Oct

Clean Coal is Part of our Energy Future

Via The Baltimore Sun: A recent Sun editorial objected to the use of the term “clean coal” and argues for a future without coal (“About that clean coal business,” Oct. 11). This argument makes a small point to ignore the larger truth that coal presently plays — and will continue to play — a dominant […]
18Oct

Court Rules Against EPA in Case Over Coal Job Losses

Via The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not properly estimated the potential job losses in the coal and other industries affected by its regulations, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge John Preston Bailey of the District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia ruled in favor of coal mining company Murray Energy […]
17Oct

NMA Hails Court Decision in Murray Energy Corp. v. McCarthy

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Mining Association (NMA) hailed a federal court decision in Murray Energy Corp. v. McCarthy ordering the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to submit a plan for conducting the evaluations of job losses related to the agency’s regulations. NMA filed a brief with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce supporting Murray Energy’s claims that section […]
14Oct

Letter: EPA is Hindering Cleaner Coal

Via The Courier & Press: The editorial titled No Such Thing as Clean Coal (Oct. 13) paints a doomsday outlook for coal as an energy source and for human health. However, technology has significantly reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants – up to 90 percent in the past few decades. Other technologies can further reductions […]
14Oct

First Shots Fired Over EPA’s New Plant Rule

Via Politico: CHALLENGERS OPEN FIRE ON EPA NEW PLANT CARBON RULE: The states and companies challenging EPA’s 111(b) regulation opened fire last night on the rule, which sets carbon dioxide limits for new coal and gas power plants. The new plant rule was finalized in August 2015 at the same time as the Clean Power […]
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 […]