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Missouri Should Oppose Obama’s “Clean Power Plan”

Via The Missouri Times: By Senator David Sater, R-Cassville Early this week, President Obama announced his plans to use the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose more government control and regulation over U.S. carbon emissions. In a 1,560-page EPA rule, Obama is requiring power plants to reduce emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 […]

EPA’s Global Warming Rule Will Kill Wisconsin Jobs

Via The Star: The federal Environmental Protection Agency issued its final global warming rule for coal-fired power plants recently. If allowed to go into effect, the rule will kill Wisconsin factory jobs and force families to pay more for their electricity. There are many reasons why the EPA’s rule is bad for Wisconsin and our […]

Obama’s Climate Plan and Poverty

Via The Wall Street Journal: President Obama says that critics of his plan to decarbonize the economy are “the special interests and their allies in Congress” repeating “the same stale arguments” about “killing jobs and businesses and freedom.” He adds that “even more cynical, we’ve got critics of this plan who are actually claiming that […]

What’s Next for the EPA’s ‘All pain, No Gain’ Clean Power Plan?

Via The Washington Examiner: The EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan is an illegal takeover of the electric power production sector and amounts to a national energy tax on all Americans. The administration’s goal is to force states to replace their current mix of low cost, reliable energy fuels with a higher cost mix of renewables […]

What Will Obama’s Power Plan Do to the Grid?

Via Politico: Environmentalists cheered last week when President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency issued the country’s first-ever mandatory greenhouse gas standards for power plants. But an anxious power industry has also been warning: What about reliability? Any major shift in how America makes electricity, especially away from the reliable but high-carbon “baseline capacity” of coal, poses a threat to the crucial national power […]

Kentucky Joins in Challenging EPA Power Plant Rules

Via The Charlotte Observer: Kentucky has joined several other states in a legal challenge against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its power plant regulations. Attorney General Jack Conway said Tuesday the legal action takes aim at federal overreach that threatens Kentucky’s ability to implement an air quality protection plan that works best for Kentucky. […]

EPA Rule Would Mean Big Utility Hike for Montana

Via The Great Falls Tribune: For decades, thanks to the smart management of resources and utilities, Montana’s residents have benefited from some of the lowest energy costs in the nation. But, if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gets its way, those affordable electricity bills will be gone, skyrocketing as much as 25 percent. Driving this […]

Indiana “Will Not Comply” With New EPA CO2 Emission Rules

Via The Beaufort Observer: Are you fed up with high electric bills? Get used to it. They are about to “necessarily skyrocket” as Barack Obama said if the EPA’s new CO2 emission standards are implemented. And if those standards were fully implemented it would have only a tiny, tiny (unmeasurable) impact on global temperatures. So […]

World Falls In Love With Coal That Obama Is Waging War On

Via Investor’s Business Daily:  At the very moment President Obama has decided to shutter America’s coal industry in favor of much more expensive and less efficient “renewable energy,” coal use is surging across the globe. A new study by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences detects an unmistakable “coal renaissance” under way that shows this […]

Jarrett: EPA’s Changes To Power Grid Could Wreck The Economy

Via Breitbart.com: Well, President Obama’s EPA has gone and done it. For over a year, energy experts, utility regulators, electric grid operators, and everyone else who understands how the power sector works have criticized the EPA’s proposed “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), saying it will increase electricity prices and jeopardize the reliability of America’s electric grid. […]