04Jan

“War on Coal” Seen Behind Federal Mining Rules that Maryland is Opposing

Via The Baltimore Sun: Just a few years ago, Jack Ternent was selling chain, rope and cement to the coal mines in the mountains around his store — the kind of trade that propped up Western Maryland’s economy for more than a century. But as the coal industry has withered nationally, and in Maryland especially, […]
30Dec

Report: EPA Regulations Pose Biggest Challenge to Keeping Nebraska’s Energy Costs Low

Via Omaha.com: Federal regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gases pose the biggest challenge to keeping electricity affordable in Nebraska, according to a report released Monday. The report, “Public Power: Is It Still Affordable?,” analyzed the state’s public power industry to determine its costs and benefits to taxpayers, consumers and businesses in the state. Ernie Goss, […]
29Dec

The Fight Continues: Multi-state Coalition Challenging Obama

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined 25 other states last week in pressing for a stay of the Environmental Protection Agency’s crippling Clean Power Plan. The controversial anti-coal plan has already caused great harm here in the coalfields of southern West Virginia and […]
28Dec

North Carolina Uses Unique Tactic Against New EPA Power Rule

Via ABC News:  Already among the two-dozen states suing to overturn new power plant emission rules, North Carolina is picking a separate fight with theEnvironmental Protection Agency by adopting a plan for compliance the agency is likely to reject. State officials hope that will create a shortcut to a federal appeals court and head off […]
28Dec

Democrats Object to President Obama’s Climate Change Policies

Via Heartland.org: A coalition of hundreds of Democratic party officials and state and local office holders sent a letter to President Obama outlining their objections to his climate change policies.  In particular, in the letter the officials from 32 states take aim at the centerpiece of President Obama’s climate change agenda, the Clean Power Plan. […]
27Dec

The EPA’s Scandalous December

Via The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency has been very, very naughty this Christmas. Lucky for the rogue agency, an especially boisterous December news cycle kept the EPA’s prolific misbehavior off the front pages. Nonetheless, the month saw several unrelated developments all involving unethical—and sometimes, possibly illegal—behavior at the EPA. The first bombshell emerged on […]
26Dec

Morrisey Urges Stay of Clean Power Plan

Via The Register-Herald: Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday he has joined 25 other state attorneys general in pressing for a stay of the Clean Power Plan. “The (Environmental Protection Agency) keeps pushing these regulations out and in some respects, even if they don’t win in court, the damage will be done,” Morrisey said. If […]
23Dec

Wyoming Petitions EPA to Reconsider Coal-fired Plant Rule

Via The Billings Gazette: CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its new rule regulating emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. The Wyoming Attorney General’s Office on Mead’s orders petitioned the EPA on Monday to reconsider. Wyoming is the nation’s leading coal-producing state and state officials […]
23Dec

The People’s Priorities

Via The Houston Herald: This week, without my support, Congress voted to fund the government for another year. The 2,009-page bill negotiated behind closed doors was a bad deal for rural America and a bad deal for southeast and south central Missouri. Simply put, this legislation funded more priorities for the president, than for the […]
22Dec

Obama: ‘Perfectly Legitimate’ To Think There Is A ‘War On Coal’

Via The Daily Caller: President Barack Obama says there are “perfectly legitimate” reasons to believe that there is a “war on coal.” Obama made the remarks during an NPR interview airing on Monday as he was explaining that there are “perfectly good reasons” to object to his policies. “If you’re living in a town that historically […]