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12Feb

Pulling the Plug on Obama’s Power Plan

Via The Wall Street Journal: President Obama’s Clean Power Plan is dead and will not be resurrected. The cause of death was hubris. As a result, the plan’s intended victims—including the national coal industry, the rule of law and state sovereignty—will live to fight another day. On Tuesday the Supreme Court put President Obama’s signature climate […]
03Feb

NMA Supports Senate Measures to Block OSM’s “Rule in Search of a Purpose”

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn today praised a Senate oversight hearing for exposing the fatal flaws in the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement’s (OSM) so-called Stream Protection Rule (SPR) and urged passage of legislation to block its implementation: “The SPR is a massive rule in search of a purpose. […]
21Jan

Here’s How Much Obama Cost Americans By Banning New Coal Leases

Via The Daily Caller:  President Barack Obama’s decision to put a moratorium on new coal mine leases could end up costing Americans billions of dollars as more federal lands are locked up. Instead, if Obama could have generated nearly $88 billion of economic activity from opening more federally-controlled lands to coal mining, according to a […]
15Jan

Moratorium on Coal Leasing is Latest Move in Administration’s Beyond Jobs Campaign

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn today released the following statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s extraordinary action to halt federal coal leasing: “The Obama administration’s move to shut off the largest source of America’s lowest cost and most reliable fuel for electricity opens up another front in its […]
22Dec

Obama: ‘Perfectly Legitimate’ To Think There Is A ‘War On Coal’

Via The Daily Caller: President Barack Obama says there are “perfectly legitimate” reasons to believe that there is a “war on coal.” Obama made the remarks during an NPR interview airing on Monday as he was explaining that there are “perfectly good reasons” to object to his policies. “If you’re living in a town that historically […]
29Nov

Congress Can Cool Off Obama’s Climate Plans

Via The Wall Street Journal:  When the U.N. climate-change talks convene in Paris next week, the risks will be high for American taxpayers. President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it. The inevitable outcome is a plan with unproven benefits and unreachable goals, but very real costs. It […]
19Nov

EPA’S Clean Power Plan: An Economic Impact Analysis

President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the Clean Power Plan (CPP) – a controversial regulation intended to reduce carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. As this report documents, the CPP carries significant cost implications for consumers, states and the nation. Read the report (PDF)
11Nov

Stop Obama’s Power Plant Rules

Via The Hill: A major battle over President Obama’s plan to deindustrialize America is heating up in Congress as Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) has taken the first step toward overturning two of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most egregious rules in its war on coal. What’s at stake is a projected 72 gigawatts of electricity […]
26Oct

EPA Plan Means Higher Prices, Grid Issues in Texas

Via ECT.coop:  Electricity prices in Texas will rise sharply and a chunk of coal power will be sidelined under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, the state’s grid operator says. An analysis released Oct. 16 by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas foresees a 16 percent boost in energy costs for consumers by 2030 […]
28Aug

The Clean Power Plan — Condensed

“Now we have standards for carbon pollution[;] for the first time in history, the Clean Power Plan sets those limits.” -U.S. EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy On August 3, 2015, President Obama announced the release of the final “Clean Power Plan,” the first nation-wide program designed to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by the […]