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EPA Global Warming Regulations Have Split The Country

Via The Daily Caller: The Environmental Protection Agency’s power plant regulations have split the country. President Barack Obama put tackling global warming at the top of his agenda in recent years, and the EPA has been more than happy to oblige and issued a sweeping set of regulations last year to cut carbon dioxide emissions […]

Guest Column: Obama’s Clean Power Plan is Bad Deal for Our State

Via The Delaware County Daily Times: Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive Clean Power Plan. The court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs imposed by the plan until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge […]

Why is Colorado Complying with EPA’s Costly Plan?

Via The Daily Sentinel:  Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive Clean Power Plan, The court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs imposed by the plan until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh […]

Pence to Defy Coal Plant Rules

Via The Indianapolis Star: Indiana won’t come up with its own plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, even if a federal reduction requirement is upheld in court, Gov. Mike Pence said Saturday. The federal rule, known as the Clean Power Plan, recently was put on hold by the Supreme Court until legal challenges […]

EPA Coal Regulations Will Hurt Montana

Via Belgrade News: This month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a nationwide stay on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPAs) new regulations on coal-fired power plants. This decision provides states like Montana – and over half of the states in our nation – relief from these overreaching and misguided regulations while they are being challenged in […]

Keeping Coal In The Ground Buries Affordable Energy

Via Investor’s Business Daily: For months, legal and energy experts have said the Clean Power Plan is an overreach of regulatory authority, a threat to grid reliability and exorbitantly expensive. The U.S. Supreme Court just stopped the plan cold. The court has issued a stay in the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean […]

Obama Takes Aim at Old Energy Sources Without New Plan

Via The Billings Gazette:  President Obama’s energy policies make no economic or political sense. The latest evidence of this is the Supreme Court’s ruling to temporarily block the administration’s effort to combat global warming by regulating emissions from coal-fired power plants. The court’s action — which was unprecedented — came in response to a challenge from 29 […]

Negative Impacts of Obama’s Coal Lease Moratorium are Imminent

Via The Independent Record:  Obama’s Department of Interior recently announced a moratorium on federal coal leases, and few states will be hit harder than Montana. Not only is our state home to over one-third of all coal reserves in the United States, but about half of the coal production in our state happens on federal […]

A Last Chance for Coal

Via The Washington Times:  States that rely on coal-fired electricity must take full advantage of the legal stay that the Supreme Courtplaced on implementation of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) last week. The ruling was close, 5-4, but the message was clear: The plan was viewed skeptically by the conservative majority of the court. […]

States Still Face War on Coal from Obama Administration

Via Real Clear Energy: The Obama Administration’s assault on the nation’s coal producers took a remarkable turn recently. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay against the president’s massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), blocking the new program until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh of relief from the 27 […]