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Clean Power Plan Faces A Constitutional Showdown Tuesday

Clean Power Plan Faces A Constitutional Showdown Tuesday On Tuesday lawyers representing everybody from the State of Texas to the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers to Google will file into a Washington courtroom to argue over whether President Obama overstepped his authority by ordering a sweeping restructuring of the U.S. electricity grid. The stakes run to … Continue reading Clean Power Plan Faces A Constitutional Showdown Tuesday

NYISO cites costs, capacity in Cuomo clean energy plan

NYISO cites costs, capacity in Cuomo clean energy plan The operator of the state’s high-voltage electric grid has thrown cold water on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious clean energy plan that seeks to get half of the state’s electricity from renewable energy by 2030. The New York Independent System Operator, which also runs the state’s wholesale … Continue reading NYISO cites costs, capacity in Cuomo clean energy plan

With CPP on ice, utilities seek organized market reforms to save baseload plants

With CPP on ice, utilities seek organized market reforms to save baseload plants Utilities in the Midwest are concerned retiring coal and nuclear plants too early leaves the grid vulnerable to price spikes and reliability problems. In the power sector, as in life, nothing brings people together like a common enemy. Last year at the … Continue reading With CPP on ice, utilities seek organized market reforms to save baseload plants

US Circuit Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit delays oral arguments in Clean Power Plan litigation

US Circuit Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit delays oral arguments in Clean Power Plan litigation On May 16, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit announced that it was delaying scheduled June 2 oral arguments before a three-judge panel in litigation over the Clean Power Plan. Instead, the DC … Continue reading US Circuit Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit delays oral arguments in Clean Power Plan litigation

Scientists Say #Obama ’s Global Warming Plan Will Fail

Scientists Say Obama’s Global Warming Plan Will Fail The efforts of President Barack Obama and other world leaders to prevent global warming will almost certainly fail, according to a new study published recently by Texas A&M scientists. “It would require rates of change in our energy infrastructure and energy mix that have never happened in … Continue reading Scientists Say #Obama ’s Global Warming Plan Will Fail