04Feb

Expert Says EPA Plan Will Kill Mississippians

Former Environmental Protection Agency regulator David Schnare urged Mississippi lawmakers to defy a federal rule requiring states to implement sweeping greenhouse-gas reduction plans, calling it both costly and illegal. Lawmakers have until today to accept his challenge, but it’s unclear whether they’ll do so. Schnare, a noted climate-change denier, appeared Monday before a joint legislative […]
03Feb

Which States Face Most Risk from EPA Rules?

Electric cooperatives and public power utilities in West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Arizona face the greatest challenges in meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon dioxide rules. “Many public power utilities already near the top of what’s affordable for customers could face backlash to raise electricity rates further. However, not raising rates comes at […]
02Feb

Official Says EPA Carbon Emission Goals Proposed For Arizona Are Too Harsh

WASHINGTON – Blistering summer temperatures are already hard enough on Arizona, but they could become even more of a challenge if the state is required to meet carbon emission reductions proposed by the federal government, a state official said Thursday. “The fact is that it gets hot in Arizona. There are periods in the summer […]
31Jan

Obama’s EPA Rules for Power Plants Will Hurt Everyone, Badly

The impending EPA rules on electric power plants will hit you hard. They will cause our electricity to go up, and will cost thousands of jobs in the state. They will lower incomes and make everything cost more. So says a new study just released by the Civitas Institute. Brian Balfour writes: New rules by the Environmental […]
30Jan

State Utility Reps Wary of EPA’s Coming Carbon Rules

Utility and state agency representatives at a legislative hearing expressed concern over the potential costs of a proposed EPA rule to cut carbon emissions from power plants and said reduction goals in the plan fail to account for progress the state has already made. The EPA rule, the final version of which is expected to be […]
29Jan

The Clean Power Plan’s Dirty Secret

The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it would finalize three enormous rules regulating carbon emissions this summer, as a part of the Obama administration’s plan to implement an ideological, environmentalist agenda. One rule in particular, the Clean Power Plan, would have a devastating effect on America’s electricity industry and the U.S. economy. The generation and retail provision […]
28Jan

Coal Outlook Hardened by Administration’s Policies

The difficult adjustments that domestic coal operators are making in a rapidly evolving energy market have been made “immeasurably more difficult” for their employees and mine communities by reckless federal regulations, said Hal Quinn, president and CEO of the National Mining Association (NMA). Addressing the annual energy outlook conference of the U.S. Energy Association last week […]
27Jan

The Economic Effects of the New EPA Rules on the State of Wisconsin

New electricity regulations being proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would have devastating effects on the U.S. economy, but would be even more detrimental to Wisconsin’s families and businesses. According to this joint study published by The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University and The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, the EPA’s proposed […]
26Jan

Congress, Courts and Governors

A Republican-controlled Congress, several important cases before courts and growing opposition in governors’ mansions across the country offer three venues where blows could be struck to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, according Hal Quinn, President and CEO of the National Mining Association (NMA). “The 114th Congress is one reason to think we […]
22Jan

Coal Still Plays a Big Role in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord’s recent op-ed supporting the EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan mandating carbon emission standards (“Pennsylvania Should Embrace the New-Energy Economy,” Dec. 30) came up short in several respects. Mr. McCord acknowledged that compliance with the proposed standards could create economic damage and would be “tough to embrace.” That would be particularly so […]