by Michael Bastach Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency may delay a contentious rule mandating carbon capture technology for coal-fired power plants, according to news reports. The agency has not officially commented on the reported rule, but sources familiar with the possible delay of the New Source Performance Standards say it stems from serious problems [...]
by By John Blosser Newsmax When it comes to the stare-down between power plant operators and the Obama administration's controversial plan to cut carbon monoxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be about to blink. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the standard is the "centerpiece [...]
by Bonner R. Cohen Heartlander Magazine Saying the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had shown “apathy and carelessness” in carrying out Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from conservative organizations, a federal judge excoriated the agency for its handling of an open-records request from the Landmark Legal Foundation (LLF)... LLF’s FOIA request was made in an [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue VII. Click on headlines for the full article. E&E Legal Launches Sierra Club Unearthed by Craig Richardson, Executive Director In early April, E&E Legal launched Sierra Club Unearthed, a special project of the watchdog group. The goal of Sierra Club Unearthed is two-fold: 1) [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel The DC Circuit will soon decide whether the EPA’s Clean Power Plan - which West Virginia’s Solicitor General says would "reorder the way we use energy, from plant to plug” - is constitutional. Regardless of whether EPA is allowed to go forward with this reordering, however, the Plan has already [...]
by Chaim Mandlebaum FME Law Counsel On April 30th 2015, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and WCVE PBS Richmond hosted a debate on climate change and the future. The debate was titled “Living with Climate Change” and it featured the Glen Besa, Executive Director of the Virginia Sierra Club debating with Dr. David Schnare, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an Executive Order Wednesday for a new target for greenhouse gas emissions cuts. Brown said it was critical to address what he called “an ever-growing threat” posed by global warming to California’s economy and well-being. [...]
by Jeff Swiatek Indianapolis Star Credit the ice ages for making Indiana a good place to turn wind into electricity. All that glacial action scoured flat the northern half of the state and sculpted the perfect terrain for wind turbines. A few million years later, the Environmental Protection Agency is about to use regulatory fiat [...]
