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Let’s Keep Up the Fight for Affordable and Reliable Energy

Via WMICentral.com: President Obama’s environmental overreach was recently slowed down by the United States Supreme Court, which plans to determine the legality of the Environmental Protection Agency Power Plan. This is good news for Arizona and the 27 other States that joined the lawsuit to stop Obama’s far-reaching energy regulations that tax power, kill jobs, […]

Show of Strength: 200 Lawmakers Oppose Anti-Coal Plan

Via The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: In a welcomed and necessary show of strength, more than 200 members of Congress have filed an amicus brief in support of West Virginia’s court case against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its existing coal-fired power plant regulations. That’s 170 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and 34 […]

Chamber of Commerce Joins Suit Against EPA Rules

Via WRIC News: The Virginia Chamber of Commerce has joined 166 other business organizations in supporting a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s Clean Power Plan, which would require states to cut carbon emissions. The move puts the chamber on the opposite side of the issue from Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. He has joined 17 […]

Why Are Some States Still Implementing the Costly ‘Clean Power Plan’?

Via Beirtbart: Mike Tyson, the poet pugilist, once memorably said, “Everybody’s got a plan until he’s hit in the mouth.” Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court hit the Obama administration squarely in the mouth when it took the unprecedented step of blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP). In a ruling that […]

Business Executives Say Gov’t Regulations to Blame for Thousands of Job Losses

Via The Washington Free Beacon: Business executives told lawmakers that government regulations are to blame for thousands of job losses and may threaten the existence of small businesses during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Ryan Murray, vice president of operations at Murray Energy Corporation, testified in the hearing that the Stream Protection Rule […]

PA Under Fire Over EPA Plan

Via The Herald-Standard: Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP.)   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 […]

WY & NE delegations Join the Fight Against Clean Power Plan

Via KGWN: Washington, DC – Today (2/23/16), U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis, all R-Wyo., joined a bipartisan group of 34 senators and 171 representatives in signing a friend-of-the-court brief supporting petitioners challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called Clean Power Plan. Senator Deb Fischer and Representative Adrian Smith […]

The EPA’s Regulatory Terrorism

Via The Washington Times: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court recently stayed implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, a set of regulations that would have required the states to come up with plans designed to drastically reduce the use of coal as a source of energy for electric power generation. […]

Boilermakers Union Leader Lambasts EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Offers Alternative

Via EP Newswire: Railing against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) doesn’t mean that Luke Voigt, business manager for Boilermakers Local 647, doesn’t have a viable option. “A better alternative to this plan would be to look into emerging technology, and build the newest and most modern technology in coal-fired generation,” Voigt […]

Congress Backs Court Challenge to Obama’s Climate Plan

Via The Washington Post:  WASHINGTON — More than 200 members of Congress are backing a court challenge to President Barack Obama’s plan to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. A brief filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington argues that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its legal authority and defied the will of […]