Coal in the News

16Feb

EDITORIAL: Stop ‘Irreparable Harm’

Via The Colorado Springs Gazette:  The Supreme Court of the United States says President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan could do “irreparable harm” to Colorado and other states. By a 5-4 vote last week, the court issued a stay that allows state governments to stop making plans to implement the proposed federal mandates. With the […]
16Feb

Scalia Death Impacts Clean Power Plan Court Fight

Via The West Virginia MetroNews:  Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay blocking the implementation of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan curtailing carbon emissions from utility power plants. The 5-4 vote for the stay was praised by leaders of West Virginia and 24 other states who contend the EPA is exceeding its authority […]
15Feb

TVA Coal Reductions Could Come With High Price Tag

Via The Chattanoogan.com: Reliable, low-cost electricity has always been the backbone of the Tennessee Valley economy. Low-cost power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, generated by a balanced mix of coal, natural gas and nuclear, drives the valley’s manufacturing economy and makes the region an attractive destination for business. In the process, Tennessee has developed the […]
14Feb

Morrisey: States Have No Legal Obligation to Comply with Halted Clean Power Plan

Via The West Virginia Record: CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, joined by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, says states should understand they have no legal obligation to continue spending funds to comply with a suspended and likely unlawful Clean Power Plan. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with nearly 30 states […]
13Feb

Your Utility Bill is Safe, For Now

Via The Daily Sentinel:  Sentinel readers know that the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week issued an injunction blocking the EPA from implementing its Clean Power Plan, which would end America’s use of coal, its cheapest and most abundant source of electricity. I’ve written about it twice, because Western Colorado’s economy is so dependent on […]
13Feb

Grave Doubts About Mr. Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Washington Post: As an applicant requesting a stay of the Clean Power Plan, we believe there is a more charitable explanation for the Supreme Court’s favorable decision than the Feb. 11 editorial “Putting the brakes on clean power” suggested. The Obama administration called our request for a stay “extraordinary and unprecedented.” Those words […]
13Feb

Domino Effect on Coal Industry

Via The Williamson Daily News: It has been a domino effect for the coal industry and the economy here in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. The “war on coal” that the Obama administration has waged on Appalachia has devastated this region. A recent Wall Street Journal article by Paul Tice titled it “Obama’s Appalachian […]
12Feb

High Court’s Rare Ruling Signals Trouble for Obama

Via OneNewsNow: An attorney says he was surprised by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that halted enforcement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The Obama administration wants to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants by about one-third by 2030, claiming it would help combat man-made climate change. But more than half the states, […]
11Feb

A Supreme Carbon Rebuke

Via The Wall Street Journal:  When President Obama hasn’t had his way on climate, immigration and so much else, he’s rewritten the law and dared critics to stop him. Well, the Supreme Court has accepted his invitation with an extraordinary rebuke. On Tuesday the High Court put a legal stay on the Administration’s rules to control carbon […]
11Feb

Daily Mail Editorial: Victory Against the Overreaching EPA

Via The Charleston Gazette-Mail: In an unexpected victory for the Constitution’s separation of powers concept, the U.S. Supreme Court put President Obama’s Clean Power Plan on hold — at least for now. Several of West Virginia’s elected officials, including Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, have fought the plan, saying […]