24Sep

Abolishing Affordable Energy Will Not Help the Poor

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. coal industry is mindful of its responsibilities as stewards of the Earth as well as its role in providing people and industries with essential energy. The impressive reductions in power plant emissions, the dramatic improvements in mine safety and the extensive reclamation of land following mining operations all testify to […]
23Sep

Missouri Families Can’t Afford to Lose Affordable Power

Via The Marshfield Mail:  Right now, many American families are struggling financially. And as I look around at these families in need, I wonder how many of them are prepared to pay more for their electricity now that the Environmental Protection Agency is implementing a “Clean Power Plan” to reduce carbon dioxide “pollution.” At a […]
23Sep

Texas Business Groups Blast ‘Avalanche’ of EPA Proposals

Via WOAI News Radio:  Texas business groups are warning today about what they call an ‘avalanche’ of proposed new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency which has the potential to cripple the state’s economy, erode the personal savings of residents, and damage thousands of businesses, without having any measurable impact on improving the environment or […]
21Sep

How Ohio Can Fight the EPA’s High-cost Clean Power Plan

Via Cleveland.com: Recently, President Barack Obama laid out the final version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan — and it’s tougher on coal-dependent states than originally anticipated. Both the EPA and the Obama administration have been in full public-relations mode lately, and both have completely ignored the very real costs to local economies and vulnerable […]
20Sep

Workers Stand with Bullock Against EPA Clean Power Plan

Via The Independent Record: The Clean Power Plan, as proposed by the EPA, calls for a crippling reduction of productivity from Montana’s economy. It’s an outrageous plan, and everyone in Montana should join union workers, local electric co-ops, industry and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock in opposing it. The EPA sees no middle ground in their […]
18Sep

Coal Supporters Turn Out in Large Numbers Against Stream Protection Rule

Via The West Virginia MetroNews: Many supporters of coal were on hand for the last in a series of six public hearings held by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) on the the Stream Protection Rule proposed in July Thursday night at Charleston Civic Center. The rule, also referred to as the […]
17Sep

The Office of Surface Mining’s Dog-and-Pony Show

Via West Virginia MetroNews:  Hoppy’s Commentary The U.S. Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining is holding a public hearing later today at the Charleston Civic Center on the agency’s new Stream Protection Rule for mining operations.  We will give OSM credit for at least showing up in West Virginia. When the EPA scheduled public hearings […]
16Sep

Winners and Losers from EPA Carbon Regulations

Via the Institute for 21st Century Energy: They say a picture can be worth one-thousand words.  In this case, however, it might be worth far more in summarizing the practical impact of the thousands of pages of regulatory text issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set forth and support its final carbon regulations […]
16Sep

The President’s Decarbonization Fantasy

Via The Washington Examiner:  Last month, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administered what they hope will be the coup de grace to America’s coal industry. They unveiled a new “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) with much fanfare and red-hot rhetoric, most of it faithfully echoed by the Washington press corps and the world’s […]
15Sep

The Unseen Casualties of EPA’s Climate Agenda

Via The Muscatine Journal: Since the Environmental Protection Agency, unilaterally and without congressional authorization, conferred on itself the power to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, many changes have taken place in America, with few of them related to the climate. As a prime example, one study shows that the total number of coal-mining jobs […]