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MISO, SPP: EPA Clean Power Plan Threatens Reliability, Needs Longer Compliance Schedule

SPP and MISO warned of a reliability crisis if the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan isn’t eased to account for up to 134 GW of generation retirements by 2020, most of them coal-fired units. “Unless the proposed CPP is modified significantly, SPP’s transmission system impact evaluation indicates serious, detrimental impacts on the reliable […]

EPA is in Denial About its Costly Carbon-Reduction Plan: Hal Quinn

While President Barack Obama was doubling down on his climate change regulationsfrom Beijing, his administration was ignoring a powerful backlash against them here at home. A growing number of experts, including overseers of the nation’s electricity grid, regional power transmission authorities, power plant operators and energy economists, are all warning that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power […]

State Officials, Crow Tribe, Question Proposed Carbon Regulations

BILLINGS – A meeting at the Billings Chamber of Commerce on Friday afternoon focused on concerns over new carbon regulations and how they could impact Montana jobs. Those new standards would force Montana to reduce carbon emissions and comply with stricter EPA guidelines. Those on the Crow Reservation call it the “war on coal,” saying […]

NMA Recognizes National Miners Day

“The National Mining Association is proud to recognize America’s miners and their indispensable role in powering and building our nation. While one day each year is set aside to honor these highly skilled and dedicated professionals, every American can thank them every day for providing the energy, metals, minerals and materials essential for our way […]

Rep. Cramer: Where will you be when the lights go out?

Discussion of the Obama administration’s proposal for reducing carbon emissions from power plants has mostly focused on the staggering cost of this unprecedented regulation. But a pair of reports out this month paint an even more frightening picture. Not only will your electricity cost more, you might not be able to get it when you […]

EPA’s Clean Power Plan Could Force Kentucky Co-op to Shut Coal Plants: CEO

East Kentucky Power Cooperative warned the US Environmental Protection Agency that its proposed Clean Power Plan could force the co-op to either close or sharply curtail two coal-fired generating units it spent nearly $1 billion to build in the past decade. The generation and transmission co-op, one of the largest in the country, has invested […]

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell Opposes EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Emissions Rule

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has joined 16 other state attorneys general in opposing proposed Environmental Protection Agency guidelines aimed at curbing carbon emissions. In a letter submitted to EPA, the attorneys general charged the new rules violate provisions of the Clean Air Act that give states more authority over power plants. The proposed rules would require 30 percent cuts in […]

Ohio Power Prices Could Spike With U.S. Plan to Cut Power Plant CO2 Emissions

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio will fight the Obama administration’s plan to dramatically reduce the amount of carbon dioxide the state’s utilities are pumping into the atmosphere. State regulators on Monday challenged the feasibility and legality of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed “Clean Power Plan” that would cut power plant CO2 emissions by 30 percent […]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: EPA Clean Power Plan Bad for Business

The EPA closed public comment on its Clean Power Plan on Dec. 1 after receiving more than 1.6 million comments. Among them was one from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is opposing the increased regulation to reduce CO2 emissions. The plan would cut carbon emissions from the power sector approximately 30 percent from 2005 levels […]

Montana PSC: Clean Power Plan Based on ‘Old World Definition’ of Power Grid

The Montana Public Service Commission has told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that assumptions in the proposed Clean Power Plan are based on an ‘old-world definition’ of the transmission grid that does not accurately represent the realities of RTO divisions, according to TransmissionHub. In Nov. 21 comments submitted to the EPA, the PSC suggested that the final […]