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The Price Tag For Uprooting America’s Electric Grid

Via The Wall Street Journal: What does it cost to keep the lights on? The question is surprisingly difficult to answer. Yet it affects the quality of life for everyone. The answer matters now more than ever. On Aug. 3, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants, which requires states […]

EDITORIAL: Save Us From the EPA

Via the Colorado Springs Gazette: The newest version of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan,” announced last week, stands to devastate Colorado’s coal-based economy. In Colorado Springs, it could negate the more than $100-million in upgrades to improve emissions at the city’s coal plants and would almost certainly force closure of at least the […]

Experts Agree: Price Too High, Benefits too Low for EPA’s Costly Power Plan

Experts Agree: Price Too High, Benefits too Low for EPA’s Costly Power Plan Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final Clean Power Plan (CPP) – more appropriately labeled the “Costly Power Plan.”  As noted by National Mining Association President and CEO Hall Quinn, under the plan “American households and businesses will be forced […]

KY Buyer’s Remorse On CPP: This Is Not What We Thought We Were Buying

Via E&E News: U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan will be so effective at incentivizing a shift to lower-carbon sources of power that the agency may never find it necessary to tighten its emissions limits, Administrator Gina McCarthy said today. Speaking at an event hosted by Resources for the Future, McCarthy said the existing power plant […]

Industry, States Set to Fight EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules

Via The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—Industry representatives and a group of state attorneys general are preparing to file lawsuits soon to challenge Obama administration rules requiring significant cuts in power-plant carbon emissions. The move, expected in the coming weeks, would open up a legal battle by contesting the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency on […]

Clean Power Plan Misses Its Mark

Via Greenville Online: South Carolina faces a financial body-blow due to the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. This plan would require a 30 percent reduction of carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants by 2030. To achieve its emissions-reduction goal, EPA is aiming to eventually phase out coal-generated power. While coal power plants are our […]

We’re Laying You Off to Save the Earth

Via One News Now: As explained by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the Clean Power Plan aims to cut carbon pollution from the power sector by 32 percent. “All while keeping energy reliable and affordable,” she claims. “It is the worst regulation that I certainly have ever seen come down, on the power industry anyway,” responds […]

Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ Punishes Workers, Consumers and States

Via The National Review: President Obama’s Clean Power Plan for existing and new power plants stretches to a combined 2,328 pages, exclusive of supporting documents and fact sheets. The language is Orwellian, with talk of “a partnership between the EPA and the states under which the EPA establishes emission guidelines and the states take the lead on implementing them […]

Climate Fight Shifts to Courts

Via The Hill: States, energy companies and business groups are preparing to sue the Obama administration over its new climate rule, viewing it as their bet shot at stopping the regulations while President Obama is still in office. With Congress largely powerless to stop the rule, opponents of Obama’s push say the court system is […]

EPA Rules Aim to ‘Decarbonize’ the Grid

Via The Washington Examiner: The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to “de-carbonize” the country’s energy system by 2030 with a suite of new rules for power plants, hurting the long-term viability of both coal and natural gas plants. The EPA on Monday finalized the rules, which include the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President […]