Coal in the News

13Apr

CHART: Power Is A LOT More Expensive Under Obama

Via The Daily Caller:  The average American’s electric bill has gone up 10 percent since January, 2009, due in part to regulations imposed by President Barack Obama and state governments, even though the price of generating power has declined. Record low costs for generating electricity thanks to America’s new natural gas supplies created by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, […]
12Apr

Louisiana Attorney General Stands Against the Clean Power Plan

Via The Louisiana Record: BATON ROUGE – The Clean Power Plan, announced on Aug. 3, 2015, by President Obama and the EPA, has faced some heavy opposition from many state officials, including Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who believes that the plan is injudicious and misguided. “The Clean Power Plan was created without Congressional authority and […]
12Apr

Count on Coal Launches New Information Resource on “Costly Power Plan”

Washington, D.C. – Today the Count on Coal initiative launched a new online resource to highlight the economic impacts of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan on individual states. CostlyPowerPlan.com features an interactive map of the U.S. that enables the public to see the higher costs incurred by each state, as well as […]
11Apr

State Spent About $150k on Clean Power Plan … So Far

Via Watchdog.org: UP IN SMOKE: Colorado officials continue to spend money on the Clean Power Plan despite a U.S. Supreme Court stay but have tapered off some costs. State officials spent approximately $150,000 to help Colorado implement the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, most of it before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the rules last month, records obtained […]
07Apr

NMA Documents Administration’s Failure to Curb Regulatory Abuse

Washington, D.C. – Despite the many executive orders and directives requiring federal agencies to curb their voracious appetite for regulations that are redundant, inefficient or outdated, a lack of incentives to repeal them has predictably resulted in costly inaction. That is the conclusion of the National Mining Association’s (NMA) review of regulations imposed on mining […]
04Apr

Wasting Colorado’s Money on EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Denver Post:  With the full support of Gov. Hickenlooper, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is refusing to fully honor the U.S. Supreme Court’s Feb. 9 stay on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Republicans in the legislature are trying to stop the agency from wasting taxpayer dollars pursuing […]
02Apr

Alabama Still Threatened by Obama’s War on Coal

Via AL.com: The Obama Administration’s assault on the nation’s coal producers took a remarkable turn recently.  The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay against the president’s massive “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), blocking the new program until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh of relief from the 27 states currently […]
29Mar

Why Green Energy Means No Energy

Via Forbes: Here are some basic facts about energy and human well-being. • There are 7 billion people in the world who need cheap, plentiful, reliable energy to flourish. • Some three billion have virtually no energy by our standards. Over a billion have no electricity whatsoever. • In the history of energy technology, only […]
29Mar

Costly Clean Power Plan a Bad Deal for State

Via The Free Lance-Star: The Supreme Court just hit the brakes on President Obama’s climate agenda. The court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants by 32 percent by 2030, should have been an important win for Virginia’s consumers. So far, […]