19Nov

We Must Save Colstrip and Block Double-digit Rate Hikes

Via The Great Falls Tribune: What happens if we lose Colstrip? “It’ll look like Ground Zero.” That’s what the mayor of Colstrip told me last week. To Colstrip moms like Cheryl Fulkerson, it means her husband and her son may both lose their jobs in the coal industry. And, it means the place that she […]
18Nov

State Should Tread Carefully with Clean Power Plan

Via The Times Leader: On Oct. 9, the Environmental Protection Agency received yet another legal slap on the wrist for its overreaching rule-making – this time on “Water of the United States,” an attempt to regulate water sources nationwide. Eighteen states joined in petitioning the Sixth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals to review […]
18Nov

Viewpoint: EPA’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost Colorado Consumers and Stunt the State’s Growth

Via The Denver Business Journal:  Wide-ranging voices—in politics, in business, and those of consumer advocates like our coalition—have been warning of the potentially crippling costs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s soon-to-be-implemented Clean Power Plan. Its ripple effects will be felt nationwide, and Colorado is by all indications squarely in harm’s way. As we have […]
18Nov

Obama’s Clean Power Plan is a Bad Deal for America

Via The Hill: In 2009, President Obama turned his attention from his campaign victory to a carefully crafted legislative wish list, handed to him by liberal lobbyists and the radical base of the Democratic Party. Among their top priorities were extreme carbon-trading schemes and a war on fossil fuel. Despite the president’s personal popularity, his […]
18Nov

North Dakota Believes it’s Being Singled Out in EPA Clean Power Plan

Via Prairie Public News:  Everyone knows North Dakota is an oil state. But it’s the state’s coal industry that’s feeling the heat from the federal Clean Power Plan, which targets carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Under the final version of the plan, North Dakota will have to cut its emissions by 45 percent – […]
17Nov

Jobs and Energy at Stake with CO2 Rules

President Obama’s CO2 rules for new and existing power plants are potentially unlawful and will be harmful to the economy. The CO2 rules are another EPA power grab that will devastate America’s energy economy with negligible environmental benefit. The Senate will vote on bipartisan resolutions of disapproval filed by Senators McConnell and Capito to block […]
17Nov

Clean Power Plan Will Add $214 Billion to Wholesale Electricity Prices

Washington, D.C. – Refuting the Obama administration’s claim that its Clean Power Plan will be virtually cost free, a new analysis of the regulation shows the president’s policy for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power sector will raise electricity costs significantly for families and businesses throughout the nation. The analysis, by Energy Ventures Analysis […]
17Nov

Senate Considers Measures to Block Obama Administration’s Anti-Coal Regulations

‘The Obama Administration is trying to impose deeply regressive energy regulations that would eliminate good-paying jobs, punish the poor, and make it even harder for Kentuckians to put food on the table.’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding two resolutions of disapproval under […]
17Nov

President’s Costly Power Plan is a Stealth Energy Tax for Colorado

Via The Gazette:  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is coming to Denver this week to drum up state support for a federal effort to implement the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. Announced by the White House with great fanfare this past summer, it is the president’s response to climate change. For Colorado, it will be […]
16Nov

Fighting Back Against Obama’s Attacks on Coal

Via The Williamson Daily News: When then-Senator Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, he told The San Francisco Chronicle that, if elected, he would use the power of the presidency to “bankrupt” the coal industry. Since 2008, President Obama has attempted to satisfy this pledge by taking numerous illegal actions to attack coal […]