12Oct

Secretary Perry’s Socially Responsible Investing

October 12, 2017 The classic definition of arrogance is the guy who murders his parents and pleads for mercy as an orphan. We’re hearing echoes of this logic from critics of energy Secretary Perry’s proposal to value baseload power plants for the reliability they provide the grid. Any cost-of-service deal for merchant producers would be […]
12Oct

Quinn: Coal Reset

Via The Miami Herald: The Oct. 11 editorial, “EPA rollbacks are bad for our planet,” is an extreme misrepresentation of a much-needed regulatory reset. With unprecedented enthusiasm for regulation, the prior administration issued broad, sweeping rules that overstepped the bounds of what the federal government can and should do — duplicating existing regulations, creating jurisdictional […]
12Oct

Promise Kept: Trump to Roll Back Clean Power Plan

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: “The war on coal is over.” That’s the welcomed verdict from new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who confirmed Monday what we already know — President Donald Trump is a friend of coal. And once again the Trump administration is making good on its pledge to help those coal-producing states that were unfairly targeted by former […]
12Oct

Governor Mead Applauds EPA Clean Power Plan Repeal Decision

Via KGAB AM650:  Wyoming Governor Matt Mead is speaking out in support of a decision by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt to begin the process of repealing the Clean Power Plan [CPP]. The CPP was first issued in 2014 and would have required states to make big reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, including a 44 percent […]
11Oct

Much Ado About Nothing

October 11, 2017 There was predictable indignation but no surprise at the administration’s decision to withdraw the Clean Power Plan. No plan survives contact with the enemy, and this one certainly didn’t. But not just because the president and his voters opposed it. Because the CPP was, from the outset, more a political subterfuge to […]
11Oct

Pruitt’s Clean Power Break

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Trump Administration is giving the economy a boost with its deregulatory agenda, and the latest example comes Tuesday when Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt will propose to repeal the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. Ending this power grab will uphold the letter of the law and restore cooperative […]
11Oct

EPA Formally Moves to Repeal Major Obama Power Rule

Via The Hill: The Trump administration formally proposed to scrap the Obama administration’s signature climate change rule for power plants. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt signed the notice Tuesday, arguing that former President Barack Obama’s 2015 rule, dubbed the Clean Power Plan, exceeds the agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act. He previewed the action Monday at a coal […]
10Oct

‘War on Coal is Over’

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. “The war on coal is over,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt declared in the coal mining state of Kentucky. […]
10Oct

EPA Moves to Repeal Obama’s Clean Power Plan Coal Regs

Via FOX News: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday that the Trump administration is moving to scrap the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration’s signature regulatory program to curb emissions from coal-fired power plants. Pruitt made the announcement at an event in Hazard, Ky., casting the previous policy as unfair. “That rule really was about […]
10Oct

Better Late Than Never

Via The Wheeling News-Register: It is unfortunate for the nation as a whole, not just for energy-producing states, that former President Barack Obama’s war on coal and affordable electricity is being ended after years in which it was pursued with attack-dog tenacity and yes, viciousness. Better late than never, however. “The war on coal is […]