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Why Fossil Fuels?

What Would The World Look Like Without Fossil Fuels?                 The United States is fortunate to enjoy abundant natural resources, including a diverse energy portfolio.  While much attention is paid to climate change, we tend to ignore the tremendous benefits that we enjoy because of that abundant energy […]

EPA’s Carbon Regs Could Cut Wyoming Coal Output 45% by 2030

From the Wyoming Business Report: According to a yet-to-be-released study by the University of Wyoming’s Center for Energy Economics and Public Policy, the Environmental Protection Agency’s planned carbon emissions standards for coal-fired power plants could cause a decline in Wyoming coal output by 20 to 45 percent in 2030. University of Wyoming Professor Robert Godby […]

New EPA Rules Will Kill Wisconsin Jobs

Harsh Midwest winters have a tendency to make Wisconsinites’ electricity bills jump quite a bit, but that is not the only thing that will increase our bills if the Environmental Protection Agency gets its way. Recently proposed rules by the EPA, expected to be finalized this summer, would sharply limit carbon emissions at coal-fired power […]

Standing Up to the EPA

The West Virginia Legislature is considering bills (HB 2004 and SB 4) that would give lawmakers oversight for how the state Department of Environmental Protection plans to meet the federal EPA’s sweeping plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, states must submit plans for reducing carbon emissions using “building blocks” established […]

Michigan Still Runs on Coal

For some time now, the Obama administration has been trying to force through a climate change policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions from electricity production, particularly coal-fired power plants. Regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency could force states to shut down hundreds of coal plants and shift to natural gas and renewable energy. Michigan […]

Expert Says EPA Plan Will Kill Mississippians

Former Environmental Protection Agency regulator David Schnare urged Mississippi lawmakers to defy a federal rule requiring states to implement sweeping greenhouse-gas reduction plans, calling it both costly and illegal. Lawmakers have until today to accept his challenge, but it’s unclear whether they’ll do so. Schnare, a noted climate-change denier, appeared Monday before a joint legislative […]

Which States Face Most Risk from EPA Rules?

Electric cooperatives and public power utilities in West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Arizona face the greatest challenges in meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon dioxide rules. “Many public power utilities already near the top of what’s affordable for customers could face backlash to raise electricity rates further. However, not raising rates comes at […]

Official Says EPA Carbon Emission Goals Proposed For Arizona Are Too Harsh

WASHINGTON – Blistering summer temperatures are already hard enough on Arizona, but they could become even more of a challenge if the state is required to meet carbon emission reductions proposed by the federal government, a state official said Thursday. “The fact is that it gets hot in Arizona. There are periods in the summer […]

Obama’s EPA Rules for Power Plants Will Hurt Everyone, Badly

The impending EPA rules on electric power plants will hit you hard. They will cause our electricity to go up, and will cost thousands of jobs in the state. They will lower incomes and make everything cost more. So says a new study just released by the Civitas Institute. Brian Balfour writes: New rules by the Environmental […]

State Utility Reps Wary of EPA’s Coming Carbon Rules

Utility and state agency representatives at a legislative hearing expressed concern over the potential costs of a proposed EPA rule to cut carbon emissions from power plants and said reduction goals in the plan fail to account for progress the state has already made. The EPA rule, the final version of which is expected to be […]