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Yep: EPA definitely putting the brakes on those power plant regs

Erika Johnsen — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:01:23 +0000

Stall tactics.

The Environmental Protection Agency and their eco-zealot fans have been all kinds of pumped at the prospect of slapping some greenhouse-gas regulations on new power plants (a major maneuver in that war on coal they’ve been attentively waging), but last month, they hinted that they were leaning toward putting a hold on the proposed rule, [...]

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How well will new energy sec Moniz play with the EPA?

Jazz Shaw — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:01:53 +0000

On board with NSPS?

When the news broke last week that Barack Obama had tapped MIT physicist Ernest Moniz to be the next Secretary of Energy, I immediately began seeing some buzz that he might be a distinct improvement over the last occupant of the office. There was even talk that he was actually a proponent of domestic energy [...]

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Hess to close last refinery in New Jersey

Jazz Shaw — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:01:17 +0000

Packing up

This story went mostly under the radar, but it will have some implications for many people on the east coast and for the industry in general further down the line. Without much fanfare, Hess recently announced that they were selling off their last commercial refinery, located in New Jersey. Their stated reasons are clear enough, [...]

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Cuccinelli: The EPA would do well to remember that we’re a nation of laws, not men

Erika Johnsen — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:51:25 +0000

Smackdown.

The odd-year gubernatorial election of what now feels like a solidly purple Virginia (…dagger) could potentially serve as a bellwether of which way the national attitude is trending after almost a year into President Obama’s second term, and conservative Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will be facing former DNC chief Terry McAuliffe in what will likely [...]

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Obama EPA second term agenda revealed

Jazz Shaw — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:01:49 +0000

Plans

If you thought the War on Coal and various other job dampening EPA initiatives over the past few years were bad, apparently that was only a skirmish compared to what’s in store after this Tuesday. At the Examiner, Conn Carroll has the inside scoop on how Santa’s little elves at Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency have [...]

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EPA to kill new coal-fired plants through first-ever greenhouse-gas regulations

Ed Morrissey — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:40:32 +0000

Power.

If you thought gas prices will never stop rising, just wait until you see what happens to electricity after the Barack Obama’s EPA gets its way. The agency will deliver on Obama’s election promise to bankrupt any new coal-fired electrical production in its first-ever regulations on greenhouse-gas emissions, the Washington Post reports. The new regulatory [...]

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Study: EPA regulations eliminate more than 1,850 jobs

Tina Korbe — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:35:57 +0000

As predicted.

According to a study published on the American Action Forum website, recent Environmental Protection Agency regulations have led to the elimination of nearly 2,000 jobs. The energy companies American Electric Power, FirstEnergy, GenOn and Midwest Generation announced recently that they will have to close five, nine, eight and two power plants, respectively, to meet EPA requirements. [...]

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