EPA HOSTS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE CLEAN POWER PLAN IN COAL COUNTRY AS THE TRUMP administration continues down its warpath to eliminate environmental protections, it found a perfect venue for a planetary funeral party: the heart of coal country. The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday concluded a two-day hearing on its plan to … Continue reading EPA HOSTS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE CLEAN POWER PLAN IN COAL COUNTRY→
Altering Clean Power Plan may not reverse coal trend Coal industry groups and various West Virginia government officials have hailed the Trump Administration’s plan to repeal former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan – a move they laud as ending a job-killing initiative and instead providing more security for the coal market. Whether that means … Continue reading Altering Clean Power Plan may not reverse coal trend→
Utilities monitor potential impact of Clean Power Plan’s end Utilities in the region say they will study the proposals offered up this week by President Trump that seek to eliminate the Clean Power Plan. Scott Pruitt, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Agency, said he will be issuing a new set of rules meant to override … Continue reading Utilities monitor potential impact of Clean Power Plan’s end→
Utilities Are Bullish on Solar, Down on Coal Despite Clean Power Plan Rollback President Trump made good on a campaign promise yesterday to start rolling back President Obama’s climate change policies and take steps to reboot the coal industry. The “Energy Independence” executive order is part of “putting an end to a war on coal,” … Continue reading #Utilities Are Bullish on Solar, Down on Coal Despite Clean Power Plan Rollback→
EIA: Without Clean Power Plan, coal will regain top spot in generation mix It was big news, albeit long-predicted, when last year natural gas took over as the nation’s top generating fuel. Lower gas prices played a role, as did environmental policies aimed at lowering and greenhouse gas emissions. Obama’s Clean Power Plan took aim … Continue reading EIA: Without Clean Power Plan, coal will regain top spot in generation mix→
Utilities feeling pain from environmental policy volatility These are confusing times for those involved in capital planning at utilities. Core to utility capital planning is forecasting investments in energy generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure. This energy resource planning is arguably more challenging now than it ever has been, due to regulatory uncertainty. Federal authority and … Continue reading Utilities feeling pain from environmental policy volatility→
How Clean Power Plan Rules Could Ultimately Cut Electricity Costs mplementing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan initially creates higher costs to electricity generators that have to pay offsets for carbon dioxide emissions. Over time, however, the state-implemented federal regulations end up raising investment incentives to increase capacity. That new capacity tends to be built with … Continue reading How Clean Power Plan Rules Could Ultimately Cut Electricity Costs→
US energy: California’s cleaner dream The state has attracted criticism over the plan to shut its last nuclear plant as part of its bid to cut emissions Perched on a rocky coastal cliff in central California, surrounded by rolling hills and a nature reserve, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant has been a lightning rod … Continue reading US energy: California’s cleaner dream→
Pennsylvania shows the way toward a clean energy future After hearing oral arguments last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is now deliberating on a case that could determine the fate of the federal Clean Power Plan (CPP). Opponents of the CPP, which sets the nation’s first limits on carbon pollution … Continue reading #Pennsylvania shows the way toward a clean energy future→
What the US Energy Market Can Learn From California In California, there is no question that the state has the accelerator pressed down to the floor when it comes to clean energy. The latest evidence of that came just last month, when the Golden State became the first in the nation to propose its own … Continue reading What the US Energy Market Can Learn From California→
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