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Stream Rule Sparks Fireworks at Oversight Panel

Via E&E News: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans pelted a top Interior Department official with tough, rapid-fire questions yesterday on the agency’s proposed stream protection rule. GOP members of two panel subcommittees expressed deep skepticism toward the Obama administration’s assertion that the rule would not have a significant negative impact on the economy […]

How Will the Clean Power Plan Affect the Power Sector?

Via  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:  Will the Obama administration’s new rules on carbon emissions from power plants spike power prices in Pennsylvania by 26 percent? Or will electricity customers see their monthly bills decline 7 percent? Both figures have been presented as possibilities within models touted by interest groups assessing the Clean Power Plan, an historic […]

Obama Power Plan Is Costly Mistake

Via The State Journal Register:  Now that President Obama has spoken at a UN summit on global warming, it’s time to consider the specifics of his new climate campaign. In the run-up to the UN conference, the president announced a “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) that would curb carbon dioxide emissions from America’s power plants. It’s […]

Obama’s Costly Power Plan

Via The Southern Illinoisan:  Now that President Obama has spoken at a United Nations summit on global warming, it’s time to consider the specifics of his new climate campaign. In the run-up to the U.N. conference, the president announced a “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) that would curb carbon dioxide emissions from America’s power plants. It’s […]

Five Major Problems with the Clean Power Plan

Via Kentucky Living.com: As you read this today, please put aside your personal beliefs about the climate of our planet, and also put aside your political likes and dislikes. Why? Because regardless of whether you approve or disapprove of what’s going on in Washington, D.C., or in Frankfort or even your own county, the newest […]

Obama’s Climate Plan Has Short Life Expectancy

Via Kentucky.com BY MITCH MCCONNELL It would obviously be irresponsible for an outgoing president to purport to sign the American people up to international commitments based on a domestic energy plan that is likely illegal, that half the states have sued to halt, that Congress has voted to reject and that his successor could do […]

Rep. Jenkins: EPA’s Actions Cost WV Jobs

Via The Williamson Daily News: U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) took to the House floor Monday night to urge his colleagues to vote yes this week on two resolutions disapproving of the EPA’s new regulations on new and existing coal-fired power plants. “This week we will join together with the House to send President Obama […]

House Votes to Overturn Obama’s Climate Rule

Via The Hill: The House voted Tuesday to overturn President Obama’s sweeping climate change regulations for power plants in a largely symbolic move. The mostly party-line 242-180 vote came on the second day of a two-week climate change conference in Paris. The legislation would block the main pillar of Obama’s climate agenda and of his […]

Obama’s Appalachian Tragedy

Via The Wall Street Journal:  ‘The traveler comes to the Appalachians in the lovely season. He sees the hills, the streams, the foliage—but not the poor.” That passage comes from “The Other America,” Michael Harrington’s 1962 book that opened the eyes of liberal policy makers to America’s invisible poverty. The classic work helped provide the […]