08Jun

EPA Ignores What Senate Will Hear Tomorrow on Clean Power Plan

June 8, 2016 It took a Freedom of Information Act request to pry real “transparency” out of EPA.  In contrast to the agency’s public utterances, confidential emails reported last week showed EPA’s alarming reaction to the Feb. 9 Supreme Court ruling that stayed the agency’s Clean Power Plan. “This is very obviously disappointing, and we […]
06Jun

Coal’s Competition Shouldn’t Include the Federal Government

Via The Edmund Sun:  Who can deny the value of competition? In sports, the world’s greatest athletes go toe-to-toe and make each other better. In business, competition rewards innovative ideas and helps entrepreneurs flourish. In both instances, consumers benefit. But not when the federal government skews the rules. That’s what’s happening with U.S. energy policy […]
02Jun

Coal Remains Dominant as Electric Power Source

Via The Register-Herald: Domestic energy use dropped slightly between 2014 and 2015, according to a report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Overall, the nations energy usage dropped about one half of one percent, from 98.2 quadrillion British thermal units in 2014 to 97.7 in 2015. EIA data shows natural gas and petroleum were the […]
02Jun

EPA Guides States Past a Supreme Court Decision

June 2, 2016 Some state agencies continue to work on EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) despite the Supreme Court’s decision to stay the rule. [NMA v EPA …] Undaunted, these agencies not only ignore a high court ruling that, for all practical purposes, shelved the administration’s signature climate change regulation but ignore also the governors […]
01Jun

Wash. Export Terminal Plan Faces Public One More Time

Via E&E Publishing: The last major coal export terminal actively pending in the U.S. Northwest has its last public hearing tomorrow as time winds down for public comments over the terminal’s draft environmental impact statement. The Millennium Bulk Terminals proposal includes using railroads to bring 44 million metric tons of coal from Montana, Wyoming and […]
31May

State Must Develop Coal Technology

Via The Bismarck Tribune: Say you recently bought a new car for the family. It seats five comfortably, meets current safety and gas mileage standards (called CAFE Standards by the Environmental Protection Agency) and you financed it for five years; not an uncommon thing to do in this day and age. You plan on keeping […]
27May

NMA President Fights to Keep Coal Industry Afloat in the West

Via Daily Energy Insider:  National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn recently encouraged the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday to keep coal lease sales on federal land unchanged because the price is fair to taxpayers. “There is no compelling need for a moratorium to ‘fix’ a program that isn’t broken,” Quinn […]
27May

Oklahoma Attorney General Says Clean Power Plan Violates State Sovereignty

Via The Washington Examiner:  The Clean Power Plan infringes on the sovereignty of the states and stretches the imagination of what Congress intended in the Clean Air Act, Oklahoma’s attorney general told a panel Thursday. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology’s Environment Subcommittee that he believed in […]
26May

Republican AGs Slam EPA For Ignoring Supreme Court Ruling

Via The Daily Caller: The Republican attorney generals of Texas and West Virginia are demanding the Obama administration stop working on its signature global warming regulation, which they argue violates a Supreme Court order. “Their efforts and those of your agency to try to make the Power Plan a fait accompli fail to accord proper […]
26May

Attorney General Morrisey to EPA: Halt Federal Spending on Clean Power Plan

Via HuntingtonNews.Net: CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey  announced he and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently sent a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop spending federal tax dollars to comply with the halted Power Plan. “The entire point of the Supreme Court’s extraordinary action in putting a stop to […]