14May

Will the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Save You Money or Clean Your Clock?

Via Watchdog.org:  By Rob Nikolewski │ Watchdog.org The Obama administration and theEnvironmental Protection Agency is on the verge of instituting a Clean Power Plan that would mark the first federal measure to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s existing power plants. The EPA says the new rules will save money in the long run, but a recent study comes to […]
14May

Senators Capito, Manchin Introduce Legislation to Roll Back EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via wvva.com: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee, today introduced a bill that will be the principal legislative vehicle in the Senate to rollback President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan.” A bipartisan group of six Senators joined Senator […]
13May

Major Kentucky Candidates for Governor Will Refuse EPA Plan

Via The Washington Times: Kentuckians won’t know who their next governor is until after the November election, but they do know he won’t comply with the EPA’s coal regulations. The Environmental Protection Agency has told states to submit a plan on how they will cut carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030. The Kentucky Coal Association says all […]
12May

EPA’s Dangerous Desire To Become America’s Energy Regulator

Via Forbes: Imagine that a federal agency seeks to fundamentally change the way electricity is provided to every household, school and factory in the United States. In fact, the agency’s proposal is so sweeping and dramatic that across the nation independent experts have raised concerns about it. According to the Nation’s reliability expert, the North […]
11May

State Rep. Andy Holt: State Should Opt Out of Clean Power Plan

Via The Knoxville News Sentinel:  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is at it again. Its new Clean Power Plan isn’t just an unprecedented attempt by a federal agency to tell states how to generate electricity, it’s also an outrageous overreach. What the EPA is attempting is far beyond its legal authority. Worse, it’s trying to […]
11May

New Coal Regulations Could Cost Southern Illinois Jobs, Critics Say

Via wsiltv.com: If passed, new proposed EPA restrictions could cripple mining in Southern Illinois, critics allege. Each May, the Old King Coal festival takes over the town of West Frankfort. The city used to be a boom town filled with coal mines and a population nearing 20,000. “Now there are no coal mines in West Frankfort. There […]
10May

States Aim to Pre-emptively Block Power Plant Regulations

Via Roll Call:  Nonetheless, Senate Majority LeaderMitch McConnell, R-Ky., has proven adept at reinserting Congress in the debate. In March, the coal-state senator publicly urged states to defy the EPA by refusing to submit plans for complying with the rule for existing plants, which he argued will eventually be thrown out by a court. It’s […]
09May

Federal Rules Hike Utility Costs at a Time When E. Ky. is Suffering

Via kentucky.com: Eastern Kentucky’s persistent struggles to achieve sustained economic prosperity are well documented. It is tempting to conclude current difficulties are simply another cycle in that history. But that is not quite the case. While most of the U.S. and Kentucky are finally showing recovery from the Great Recession, there is no recovery in […]
08May

Courts Must Step in and Stop EPA’s Brazen Overreach

Via foxnews.com: It’s been said that ‘timing is everything’ and time is just one of the issues at stake in the legal proceedings surrounding the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan, which would regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. Specifically, the Court must decide if a proposed federal regulation, like the CPP, can […]
07May

EPA Plan For ‘Clean Power’ Could Jeopardize Safety Of U.S. Electrical Grid

Via Breitbart.com: As President Obama looks to implement strict rules on carbon emissions, coal-powered electrical generation is on the chopping block.  For those worried about “climate change,” coal is a convenient target. Unfortunately, a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to shutter hundreds of domestic, coal-fired power plants has been hastily thrown together, with […]