10Mar

GOP’s ‘Just Say No’ Climate Strategy Stirs Doubts for EPA

Via Politico: By Erica Martinson Supporters of President Barack Obama’s climate regulations are getting worried EPA may have few tools to use if states decide to follow conservatives’ advice and refuse to cooperate with the agency on climate change regulations. Questions abound about how the agency would impose its own climate plans on behalf of […]
09Mar

EPA Imposes Costly Power Plan on Tennessee, All States

Via The Tennessean: American households and businesses currently reaping the benefits of low oil prices may soon lose them to higher electricity bills. For this, we can thank an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan designed to replace low cost power supplies with more expensive and less reliable ones. A growing number of energy experts, including […]
09Mar

State Officials to Lock Horns on the Clean Power Plan

Via E&E Publishing: Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hear this week from states weighing how — and whether — to implement U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The five officials who will address the panel Wednesday are from state agencies and public utility commissions tasked with writing and advising […]
07Mar

The Importance of Visual Composer

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07Mar

Construction & other big companies

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06Mar

PUC Chair Blasts EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via Texas Lawyer: Donna Nelson, chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, doesn’t mince words about her views concerning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan. On March 2, she gave a speech titled “Power, the EPA and Texas” at the Texas Tech Law School’s Energy Law Series and said that the […]
05Mar

McConnell to States: Don’t Comply with EPA Climate Rule

Via The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is urging state officials not to comply with the Obama administration’s signature climate rule. McConnell, a stringent opponent of the regulation, said states should not submit a design plan for limiting carbon pollution from existing power plants. “The regulation is unfair. It’s probably illegal. And state […]
05Mar

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin Gives WV Legislature Authority in Clean Power Plan Compliance

Via The State Journal: By Sarah Tincher, Energy Reporter As West Virginia authorities begin to figure out compliance strategies for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has signed legislation allowing the WV Legislature to have final say in the state’s implementation plan. The Clean Power Plan, proposed June 2, […]
04Mar

Devastating Report Details Impacts of Obama’s EPA Regs on Louisiana

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.) today released the following statement in response to a Pelican Institute policy brief published in conjunction with a study by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University, regarding the economic impacts on Louisiana of the Obama Administration’s environmental regulations put in place by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Pelican Institute found […]
03Mar

Cold Enough for You? EPA Might Make it Worse

Via The Knoxville News Sentinel: Right now, Tennessee gets 42 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power plants. But what would happen if the state were suddenly forced to seek all of its electric supply from other sources? Could Tennessee experience crippling shortages of power during peak use? And would households see a steep increase […]