Clean Power Plan

11 05, 2023

The Daily Wire: Biden EPA Unveils New Crackdown On Power Plants

2023-05-16T11:38:36-04:00May 11th, 2023|"Climate Change", Bad Science, Clean Power Plan, Communism, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Ben Zeisloft As appearing on the Daily Wire The Environmental Protection Agency released new carbon emissions standards for power plants that burn coal and natural gas, a move which some energy experts and lawmakers caution will decrease power reliability and artificially increase electricity costs for households. The new regulations unveiled on Thursday morning would [...]

11 05, 2023

The Washington Free Beacon: How Biden’s New Environmental Rule Could Force Coal and Gas Plants To Shut Down Entirely

2023-05-16T11:35:05-04:00May 11th, 2023|Bad Science, Clean Power Plan, Communism, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Collin Anderson As Appearing on the Washington Free Beacon EPA's stringent emission standards mandate use of green tech that 'doesn't really exist,' experts say The Biden administration is imposing near-impossible emission standards on coal and gas plants that force them to adopt the use of expensive, unproven green technology—or shut down. President Joe Biden's [...]

11 05, 2023

Townhall: Biden EPA Unveils Radical New Rule That Will Decimate American Energy

2023-05-16T11:30:48-04:00May 11th, 2023|Clean Power Plan, Communism, Media Coverage, Milloy, War on Coal|

by Spencer Brown As appearing on Townhall.com The Biden administration announced its latest move in the president's now long-running campaign to "end fossil fuels" and force Americans through an "energy transition" that has destroyed the country's energy independence, driven energy prices higher, and left Americans more vulnerable to blackouts. Something of a retread of the [...]

30 06, 2022

Milloy: SCOTUS Has Crippled Biden’s EPA, But There’s Only One Way To Stop Them For Good

2022-07-07T12:06:28-04:00June 30th, 2022|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Clean Power Plan, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder Steve Milloy As Appearing in The Daily Caller The Supreme Court has just essentially ended the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to directly regulate greenhouse gases. But don’t expect the Biden EPA to let that stop it. Today’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA puts an end [...]

14 09, 2018

Walcher: But what will take its place?

2018-09-17T10:02:54-04:00September 14th, 2018|Clean Power Plan, EPA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel In high school and college I competed in debate tournaments across the state and country, and remember many occasions when a debate team's plan would include abolishing some government program. Inevitably, the opponents would ask, "What will you replace it with?" [...]

21 08, 2018

Daily Caller: Au revoir! Trump to Dismantle the Key Pillar of Obama’s Paris Climate Accord Plans

2018-08-22T11:04:10-04:00August 21st, 2018|"Scare Pollution", Clean Power Plan, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began the process of replacing former President Barack Obama’s signature global warming regulation that was supposed to bring the U.S. into compliance with the Paris climate accord. But those plans were dashed when President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw from the Paris [...]

7 03, 2018

Cooke: Coloradans are taking on the state’s largest monopoly utility

2018-03-08T15:19:05-05:00March 7th, 2018|Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, Cooke, Media Coverage|

by Amy Cooke, Independence Institute EVP and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Hill Just because President Obama’s controversial and costly Clean Power Plan is dead at the federal level doesn’t mean Colorado ratepayers are out of financial danger. Nearly 1.4 million state electricity customers await a Colorado Public Utilities Commission (COPUC) [...]

15 10, 2017

Milloy: The Clean Power Plan’s Counterfeit Benefits

2017-10-18T13:58:39-04:00October 15th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Clean Power Plan, Media Coverage, Milloy, War on Coal|

by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Obama EPA claimed its regulation would have a $55 billion payoff. You’ll never believe how. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed repeal of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is a milestone. No Republican administration has ever mustered the courage [...]

10 10, 2017

Press Release: Two Senior E&E Legal Experts Commend the EPA For Its Move to Repeal the ‘Clean Power Plan’

2017-10-10T11:18:24-04:00October 10th, 2017|Bad Science, Clean Power Plan, Mandelbaum, Milloy, Press Releases|

Washington, D.C. -  The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) applauds U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt for his Agency's proposed repeal of the ‘Clean Power Plan’ rules on stationary energy generating sources. This proposed rule, implemented by the Obama administration, would have been disastrous to the U.S. economy, killing critical American jobs, putting the most [...]

23 06, 2017

Walcher: California’s Economic Suicide

2017-06-23T11:04:01-04:00June 23rd, 2017|California, Clean Power Plan, Conflict of Interest, Energy Poverty, Media Coverage, States, Walcher|

by E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As Appearing in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Last fall, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring his state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels. That ratchets the state’s already severe limits down even tighter, now requiring a reduction to levels [...]

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