18Oct

Montana PSC Praise EPA Actions to Repeal Clean Power Plan

Via Daily Energy Insider: Members of the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) recently issued statements applauding U.S. Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s actions to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. “The EPA’s Clean Power Plan was all pain no gain for Montana,” Commissioner Tony O’Donnell said. “The draconian emission’s reductions specified in the […]
18Oct

The Lesson from Luminant

October 18, 2017 Lately it seems that news, too, is in the eye of the beholder. The calamity brought by recent hurricanes – a calamity some greeted as evidence of climate change – was seen by others as evidence of grid vulnerability. Nature has become partisan. So it was last week. Reporters for the most […]
17Oct

Trump Cuts Clean Power Plan, Boosts America’s Prospects

Via Brietbart.com: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice in the Federal Register that it is rescinding former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). This action serves as further evidence the gridlock in the Washington, DC swamp has not slowed President Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back ineffective and extremely costly climate programs and […]
17Oct

Repealing the Clean Power Plan will benefit all Americans

Via The Washington Examiner: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s proposal to repealthe so-called Clean Power Plan is the most notable step President Trump and his team have taken to date to end the Obama administration’s unlawful and economically destructive war on affordable energy. Although there is no shortage of policy reasons to repeal the Clean Power Plan, […]
16Oct

Costly Power Plan No Longer Threatens State’s Economy

Via The West Virginia Gazette-Mail: Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, just did a big — though little-known — favor for states like ours that use coal to generate electricity. His decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan lifted a massive regulation from our state’s economy, sparing our industries and households from […]
16Oct

A Costly Power Plan No Longer Threatens Colorado’s Economy

Via Colorado Politics: Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just did a big — though little-known — favor for states like ours that use coal to generate electricity. His decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) lifted a massive regulation from our state’s economy, sparing our industries and households from […]
13Oct

Energy Secretary Rick Perry Moves to Preserve the U.S. Electrical Grid

Via Polizette.com: Over the past decade, scores of coal-fired and nuclear power plants have closed, leaving the country at risk Americans often take their daily electricity for granted. And it’s only when storms knock down power lines that we realize how much we rely on it. Unfortunately, there are real, growing concerns about the long-term […]
13Oct

All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy Needed to Fuel Reliable Electric Grid

Via The Philadelphia Inquirer:  The spate of recent hurricanes that pummeled Florida, Louisiana, and Texas highlights the fragility of America’s electricity infrastructure. Millions of residents lost power for days, sometimes weeks. In tandem with this lost service came troubling disruptions to gas production and key pipelines, driving up energy costs nationwide. Americans have long been […]
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 […]