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Some 2016 GOPers May Ignore EPA Coal Regs

Via The Washington Post: Some Republican governors who are running for president are threatening to ignore Environmental Protection Agency regulations likely coming this summer that would limit power plant emissions. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have both been the most vocal in telegraphing their planned resistance. To combat climate change, President […]

KY Race May Alter Clean Power Plan Fortunes

Via Environment & Energy Daily: For many supporters of the Obama administration’s landmark proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, Kentucky is an example of the plan’s viability. Even though the state is a major producer and consumer of coal, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration thinks it can develop a plan to […]

Governor Pence: EPA Climate Rule ‘A Genuine Threat’ To Cheap Energy

Via The Daily Caller: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is joining a growing number of states threatening not to implement the key aspects of the Obama administration’s global warming agenda, arguing pending Environmental Protection Agency regulations would impose huge costs on Americans. “One of the advantages in our economy has always been the affordability and reliability […]

6 Governors Threaten to Defy Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Via U.S. News & World Report: Denial has become defiance. Six governors, a Democrat and five Republicans who have questioned or avoided taking a stance on the existence of human-induced global warming, have announced in the past 90 days that they will not comply with the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration’s signature effort to […]

The Many Problems of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Climate Regulations

Via The Heritage Foundation: No matter one’s personal opinions on the climate effects of man-made greenhouse emissions, the Obama Administration’s proposed climate-change regulations will exact a high price on Americans and have a negligible impact—if any—on global temperatures. The EPA has already put into place several greenhouse-gas regulations; however, the most far-reaching regulations are set […]

Clean Power Plan Could Push Millions of Minority Americans Into Poverty

Via The Washington Times:  This summer the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize its carbon-dioxide emission regulations under President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The EPA’s own data projects the regulations will reduce global carbon by less than 1 percent and sea level rise by one one-hundredth of an inch. The price Americans will pay for these “benefits” is layoffs and […]

Pence Wants States to Join EPA Rules Fight

Via Pal-Item: WASHINGTON – Fighting the federal government over proposed greenhouse gas rules for power plants is worth the legal costs, Gov. Mike Pence said Thursday in a news conference with an industry advocacy group aimed at encouraging more states to follow his lead. “We do have a choice,” Pence said. “You can refuse to submit […]

Supreme Court Decision Could Resurrect Coal Plants

Via The Washington Examiner:  The Supreme Court’s decisive blow against the Environmental Protection Agency’s pollution rules could bring coal-fired power plants back from the brink. But not before a lot more legal action that could take months to wrap up. The high court on Monday ruled 5-4 that the EPA cannot simply ignore compliance costs […]

State Utility Commissions Should Fight the Clean Power Plan

Via The St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  In my six years of service on the Missouri Public Service Commission, I fought hard to keep electricity rates affordable and stable for the people of Missouri. But the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Power Plan threatens to unravel years of hard work by myself and other state commissioners and […]

Stopping EPA Uber Alles

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court scolded the Environmental Protection Agency last week for bombing Dresden, albeit long after the bombs fell. In 2011, the year the EPA proposed the anticarbon mercury rule that the Court has now ruled illegal, some 1,500 fossil-fuel-fired electric units were in operation. Only about 100 have not […]