Category Archives for USA
The Final Clean Power Plan
(Originally published in Issue 2, 2015 American Coal Magazine, pg. 39) EPA’s Carbon IRP Process, State Plan Options, and Implications for 2016 State Legislative Sessions By Raymond L. Gifford, Gregory E. Sopkin and Matthew S. Larson – Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer … Continue reading
A War to End All Wars
Editor’s note: We welcome this guest post, discussing the “war on coal,” by Greg Walcher, author of “Smoking Them Out.” By Greg Walcher (originally published 04/17/15 & reprinted with permission) I attended a conference in April where a number of speakers … Continue reading
The Orbital Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) Satellite and the CLARREO Satellite
By W. James O’Brien, W. James O’Brien Associates Two satellites which will answer the question of what impact carbon dioxide (CO2) content in the atmosphere has with real data, not models, are on track with NASA: the Orbital Carbon Observatory … Continue reading
Administration releasing plans for 3,415 additional regulations
This Daily Caller article describes how the Obama administration has picked the last few hours remaining before the Thanksgiving holiday to release the updated federal Unified Agenda. The DC article describes the document as, the Obama administration’s regulatory road map … Continue reading
American energy security another victim of EPA CO2 regs
Here’s one more article pointing out the high and unintended costs of the EPA’s pending GHG regulations. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce blog describes (from a variety of reports) how prices across the nation could increase by 6%-7%, or even as … Continue reading
U.S. CO2 emissions grow
No great surprise here. The Obama administration appears to be losing ground in its efforts to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, according to new government figures that show pollution levels rising again after several years of gradual decline. Two … Continue reading
Coal country sees what is happending
More and more people are waking up to the reality that the war on coal is just one part of a much larger war. As Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich described in a 2013 American Coal magazine article, … Continue reading
EPA GHG rules: based in flawed logic
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce blog describes the flawed logic underlying the latest round of EPA regulations, which are aimed at CO2 emissions and the U.S. coal industry. Based on projections from the U.S. Department of Energy, the amount of … Continue reading
EPA – the “environmental purity agency”
Dr. Marvin Folkertsma’s recent article describes the EPA as an Orwellian force in this nation’s government. In the article, Folkertsma discusses their “all-encompassing .. expansion of governmental power,” their increasingly strict regulatory regime, and their development of “a rich Newspeak vocabulary to vilify … Continue reading
EPA Clean Power Plan
Coalblog readers – just saw this note on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan webpage. The comment period has been extended to December 1, 2014
16. September 2014 by Jason Hayes
Categories: carbon, EPA, Government resources, Industry Reports, Policy, Regulation, USA | Tags: comment, EPA, regulation | 1 comment