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Supreme Court Threatens Obama’s Climate Agenda

Via Politico:  President Barack Obama will leave office next January with the fate of one of his biggest environmental achievements hanging in the balance. The Supreme Court on Tuesday took the unusual step of blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark carbon rule for power plants, throwing into doubt whether Obama’s signature climate change initiative will […]

W.Va, Other States File Reply in Clean Power Plan Stay Request

Via The West Virginia Record: West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, along with officials from 30 other states, told the U.S. Supreme Court in a filing last week their case against the Environmental Protection Agency is “truly extraordinary” and that the agency’s Clean Power Plan would impose the largest burden states have ever been asked […]

Federal Regulators Now Feeling Pain of their War on Coal

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: The major business news stories of 2015 all featured the decline of the coal industry, as if we didn’t know. Along with the falling fortunes of the oil and gas industry, there have been few glad tidings this holiday season for anyone in the fossil energy sector, least of all for […]

Clean Power Plan All Pain, No Gain

Via MySanAntonio.com: Imagine that your employer informs you that a 25 percent tax will be withheld from your paycheck, with that money going to help achieve world peace. While the sacrifice will be difficult, the cause is just and something you support, so you agree. You find out later, however, that yours is the only […]

Montana Poised to Maintain Coal Production, Export

Via The Billings Gazette: Thirty million dollars a year in lost royalties, hundreds of direct jobs lost, thousands of families out of work and out of options, entire towns destroyed, statewide economic ripples, and over $1 trillion dollars in stranded assets, not necessarily because of market forces, but directly attributable to a political agenda. That […]

Co-ops: EPA’s Clean Power Plan Math is Wrong

Via ect.coop: The Environmental Protection Agency has miscalculated the cost of its Clean Power Plan by ignoring its effect on electric cooperatives that own a minority share of power plants, among other mistakes, an NRECA analysis says. NRECA says EPA’s Clean Power Plan contains oversights that will cost co-ops millions of dollars more in compliance. […]

There Is a Big Free-Market Demand for Coal

Via The Wall Street Journal: I disagree with the letter writers of Jan. 20 and Feb. 1 who say that coal is dying and that the free market killed it. The International Energy Agency predicts coal usage will increase world-wide at least through 2035 and that coal will surpass oil as the world’s leading energy […]

ND Files Lawsuit Against EPA Regarding Clean Power Plan

Via KFYR 5:  Coal has been referred to as North Dakota’s “old faithful,” Coal produces 80 percent of the state’s electricity, and since it’s an inexpensive way to produce energy, it keeps power costs low. However, the Obama Administration wants to cut down on greenhouse carbon emissions through the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Last week […]

Why the CPP Is so Bad for Rural America

Via EnergyBiz.com: IN AUGUST, THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled the final version of a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 32% by 2030. Dubbed the Clean Power Plan, EPA’s blueprint is one of those ambitious initiatives — a big overreach, some say — that will have extensive and long-term consequences, some of which we […]

Parties Clash Over How to Allocate Carbon Allowances in MO.

Via E&E News: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — No matter the politics or point of view on U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan, utilities and other parties in Missouri working on a state compliance strategy unanimously favor a “mass-based” plan to cap power plant carbon dioxide emissions and trading of emissions allowances. But there is far less […]