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EPA’s Clean Power Fraud

Via The Washington Times: By Paul Driessen  The Environmental Protection Agency has twisted 280 words in the Clean Air Act into 2,690 pages of Clean Power Plan regulations and appendices. The Clean Power Plan requires that states slash their utility-sector carbon-dioxide emissions an average of 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. At least 12 […]

Report: Obama Coal Plan Will Boost Electricity Bills 16%, Drive Companies Offshore

Via The Washington Examiner: By PAUL BEDARD As President Obama jetted to Alaska Monday to talk up his climate change plans, burning through nearly 17,000 gallons of fuel, a new report showed that his “Clean Power Plan” will increase consumer electric bills 16 percent and speed plans by job-creating manufacturers to flee America’s high fuel costs. The […]

EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Europe’s Folly

Via The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Clean Power Plan (CPP) to reduce carbon dioxide pulls a colossally damaging and futile national energy plan out of a bureaucrat’s hat. Who needs congressional authorization by law to dismember the engineering marvel that is our national electric power system? The EPA “architects” may have lots […]

Clean Power Plan Could Have Big Impact on Rural Areas of Missouri

Via Lake News Online: In a state that relies heavily on coal to produce the majority of electricity used by consumers, the Environmental Protection Agency’s final rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions will have a significant impact on rates and jobs and could determine who can keep their lights on and their homes cool.  These rules, […]

The Clean Power Plan — Condensed

“Now we have standards for carbon pollution[;] for the first time in history, the Clean Power Plan sets those limits.” -U.S. EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy On August 3, 2015, President Obama announced the release of the final “Clean Power Plan,” the first nation-wide program designed to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by the […]

EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations Will Raise Costs for Steel Industry

Via The Cleveland Plain Dealer: The steel industry in the U.S. is subject to substantial international competition, often against steel producers in countries where energy costs are subsidized.  Access to reliable and affordable energy supplies – especially electricity – is therefore critical to maintaining the domestic industry’s competitiveness. New EPA greenhouse gas regulations for electricity […]

Clean Power Plan Will Hammer Nevada seniors

Via The Las Vegas Review-Journal: Ronald Reagan once said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Sadly, Reagan is being proved right once again by a sweeping new plan that the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to impose on the states. In […]

When Cost of EPA Rules Hit Home, Watch Out

Via The Kearney Hub: Lots of numbers have been tossed out over the past several weeks as Nebraska officials react to the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement of more aggressive clean air goals and what they mean for coal-fired generating plants, but here is the most dismaying statistic: Nebraska electrical rates stand to increase by […]

Colorado Should Not Comply with the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Gazette: On Aug. 3, President Barack Obama laid out the final version of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. In the wake of the EPA’s role in the Animas River disaster, which so far has dumped 3 million gallons of wastewater into the river, Coloradans should rightfully be wary of the way […]

Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ Hurts Economy

Via The Hill: Affordable, dependable energy is crucial to everyone, especially the poor, the elderly, those on fixed incomes, and local institutions like schools and hospitals.  Anything that makes energy more expensive and less dependable should be viewed with disdain. A case in point is a slightly revised version of EPA’s 111(d) Rule, better known […]