02Dec

Rep. Jenkins: EPA’s Actions Cost WV Jobs

Via The Williamson Daily News: U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) took to the House floor Monday night to urge his colleagues to vote yes this week on two resolutions disapproving of the EPA’s new regulations on new and existing coal-fired power plants. “This week we will join together with the House to send President Obama […]
02Dec

House Votes to Overturn Obama’s Climate Rule

Via The Hill: The House voted Tuesday to overturn President Obama’s sweeping climate change regulations for power plants in a largely symbolic move. The mostly party-line 242-180 vote came on the second day of a two-week climate change conference in Paris. The legislation would block the main pillar of Obama’s climate agenda and of his […]
01Dec

Obama’s Appalachian Tragedy

Via The Wall Street Journal:  ‘The traveler comes to the Appalachians in the lovely season. He sees the hills, the streams, the foliage—but not the poor.” That passage comes from “The Other America,” Michael Harrington’s 1962 book that opened the eyes of liberal policy makers to America’s invisible poverty. The classic work helped provide the […]
01Dec

How High Will Obama’s EPA regulations Drive Your Power Bill?

Via personalliberty.com: Within the next 15 years, electricity consumers in every state — which means just about everybody in America — will be paying as much as 25 percent more than they’re paying now, thanks to President Obama’s war on coal. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce power plant carbon […]
01Dec

EPA Regulations Threaten Alabamians’ Jobs, Quality of Life and Liberty

Via Yellow Hammer News.com In 2008, Barack Obama stated that under his plan, “electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket.” Unless something is done about the plethora of mandates being instituted by his liberal EPA, we will see that become a reality in the very near future. In 2015 alone, there were six major rules that were […]
30Nov

President Obama, Have Pity on the Working Man

Via Breitbart.com: Leading up to the meeting, the president recently announced a “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) to curb carbon dioxide emissions from America’s power plants. Such an effort may bolster the president’s credentials as a climate leader. But his plan requires a staggering transformation of America’s power sector that is simply too costly to implement. Under […]
30Nov

Obama Takes His Reckless Energy Plan to the United Nations

Via The Washington Post:  By Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate. It would obviously be irresponsible for an outgoing president to purport to sign the American people up to international commitments based on a domestic energy plan that is likely illegal, that half the states have […]
29Nov

Congress Can Cool Off Obama’s Climate Plans

Via The Wall Street Journal:  When the U.N. climate-change talks convene in Paris next week, the risks will be high for American taxpayers. President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it. The inevitable outcome is a plan with unproven benefits and unreachable goals, but very real costs. It […]
27Nov

EPA Regulations To Cause Double-Digit Electricity Price Increases In Nearly Every State

Via The Daily Caller:  People should enjoy the relatively low electricity prices while they can this Thanksgiving season, because nearly every state could see double-digit increases in electricity rates due to federal regulations forcing coal plants to retire, according to two separate studies. Two new studies by Energy Ventures Analysis and NERA Economic Consulting claim […]