by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research As Appearing in The Heartland Institute's Magazine In the latest challenge to the Obama administration’s intensifying regulatory actions, a coalition of free-market and conservative organizations is calling on state governments to resist the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. In a December letter [...]
by Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter Greenwire A conservative group sued the Energy Department this week for documents on a major carbon capture and storage project in a bid to chip away at a key component of U.S. EPA's draft rule for curbing greenhouse gases from new power plants. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed [...]
By Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Julian Morris Reason Magazine More than half the states have renewable portfolio standards in place requiring certain and growing percentages of electricity to come from specified sources. Are these policies providing society with measurable benefit? Are they too costly for what they provide? [...]
by Bonner R. Cohen Heartlander Magazine Sitting on opposite sides of the fence, refiners and producers of biofuels are anxiously awaiting a decision by the Obama administration on the amount of renewable fuels Washington will mandate for use in the transportation sector. In November 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a significant reduction in [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency may delay a contentious rule mandating carbon capture technology for coal-fired power plants, according to news reports... TheDCNF was also told by sources that comments filed about the regulation from opposition groups have cast further doubts on the legality of EPA’s CCS mandate. In particular, [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment Real Clear Markets Representatives from the U.S. and 195 other countries are meeting in Lima, Peru for the 20th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, hoping to lay the foundation for a major treaty to reduce global [...]
Climate Daily News Significant construction delays and massive cost overruns at Southern Company's proposed Kemper carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Mississippi are creating problems for EPA's new source performance standards (NSPS) setting greenhouse gas (GHG) limits at new power plants, which relies on the project to justify a controversial GHG standard for new [...]
David W. Schnare, General Counsel, E&E Legal Karen Lugo, Director, Center for 10th Amendment Action, TPPF States that cooperate with the EPA’s new Clean Power rule will replace shared clean air regulatory authority with capricious federal standards. They will cede not only responsibility for standard setting but decisions on what kind and price of electricity [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D Heartland Institute The Energy & Environment Legal Institute is challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s renewable energy standard. In November of 2004, Colorado voters passed a referendum imposing a renewable portfolio standard on the state. This was the first time a referendum had been used to pass a renewable power mandate, occurring [...]
