12Jul

Clean Power Plan Would Devastate the Trades

Via The Mesabi Daily News: Over the course of the past many months, we have watched the developments of the MPCA regarding the clean power plan. Our organization has evolved into a highly specialized trade craft that mainly works in the fossil fuel industry. The Clean Power Plan, as written, will decimate our industry, period. […]
12Jul

Lost Production Equals Lost Employment from the Clean Power Plan

July 13, 2016 The administration has long blamed coal’s troubles on the marketplace, not on its regulations. In congressional hearings, all the president’s men and women discount the impact of the Clean Power Plan on jobs, coal communities and the grid – even as they claim credit for regulating coal out of the grid when […]
11Jul

SPR is Bad News for Kentucky Coal Miners

Via the Louisville Courier-Journal: As most of us understand, Kentucky’s economy is powered by coal. The low-cost, reliable electricity that coal provides our commonwealth benefits every Kentuckian. Coal gives us a huge competitive advantage over other states that pay more for electricity and allows us to keep and attract good jobs. As it interconnects with […]
11Jul

SPR is Bad News for KY Coal Miners

As most of us understand, Kentucky’s economy is powered by coal. The low-cost, reliable electricity that coal provides our commonwealth benefits every Kentuckian. Coal gives us a huge competitive advantage over other states that pay more for electricity and allows us to keep and attract good jobs. As it interconnects with every facet of our […]
08Jul

EPA Reg Shutters FOUR TIMES More Coal Power Than Agency Initially Predicted

Via The Daily Caller:  The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) initial projections on coal power vastly underestimated how much coal-fired power would be shuttered by its mercury regulation, according to federal data. Actual capacity retirements from coal-fired power plants were more than four times greater than EPA initially projected. Newly-released Energy Department data shows 20 gigawatts […]
08Jul

States are Right to Worry About Clean Power Plan Costs

Via The Hill: Earlier this year, the Supreme Court issued a stay on President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” (CPP.) That was good news for the 29 states now on record as formally opposing the president’s plan to vastly transform the nation’s power grid. But those states now appear doubly justified in opposing the effort, thanks […]
07Jul

Obama’s Climate Policy Is a Hot Mess

Via The Wall Street Journal: When President Obama flew to Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, promoting their climate-change policies was near the top of the agenda. “The Paris Agreement was a turning point for our planet,” the leaders’ joint statement said, referring […]
07Jul

Searching for the Power Plan’s Benefits

July 7, 2016 In a House subcommittee hearing this week, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) echoed the doubts of many when he questioned the benefits of this administration’s anti-coal regulations –  leaving aside the legality of them. In a “where’s the beef” remark, Rep. Barton told agency air chief Janet McCabe he was hard pressed to […]
05Jul

EPA Rule Transforming Job of Regulators — NARUC President

Via E&E Publishing: The leader of the nation’s association for state utility regulators last week said U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan could forever alter his job description — and he’s not happy with the idea. “Regardless of what you think about a regulation like that, [the Clean Power Plan] is the premier example of the […]
01Jul

Why Your Electric Bill Won’t be Going Down Soon

Via The Delco Times: You have to admire the Obama Administration’s optimism. Even though the Supreme Court issued a stay on the president’s “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) earlier this year, the EPA insists that states should keep moving forward with efforts to radically alter their power sector. It’s a bold move, since the High Court […]