By Elliott Negin Last Monday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced he will repeal the Obama administration’s regulation to curb power plant carbon emissions, telling coal miners in Kentucky that “the war on coal is over.” The next day he kept his promise, issuing a proposed rule to eliminate the Clean Power Plan. […]
It was supposed to be all about jobs. When the president announced his intent to abandon the Clean Power Plan this spring and then withdraw from the Paris agreement this summer, one of the biggest reasons cited was to protect the coal jobs sustaining communities in places like Appalachia. There’s just one problem. Whatever the […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took its first formal step to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP), former President Obama‘s signature climate change policy to clean up carbon pollution from fossil fuel-burning power plants—and a major target of President Trump and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt‘s regulatory rollbacks. Reuters, which has seen an EPA document […]
By Rachel Cleetus News articles indicate that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soon going to release a “revised” Clean Power Plan (CPP). It is very likely to be significantly weaker than the original CPP, which offered one of the country’s best hopes for reducing carbon emissions that cause global warming. EPA Administrator Scott […]
By Josh Goldman Merely typing “vehicle efficiency and emissions standards,” feels like I’m prompting you to click off in search of the latest cat meme or 8,000th story on President Trump. But the next battle in the war for better vehicles looms, and you can help defend against automaker efforts to rollback a program they […]
A group of 14 attorneys general and local officials are urging the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) to retract a “legally incorrect” letter sent to states in March that said they do not have to comply with the Clean Power Plan. In a letter sent Thursday to the EPA Office of General Counsel, state officials call […]
By Elizabeth Hernandez and Eric Chaney Up close, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the U.S. isn’t as big as you’d expect it to be. From most angles, you can’t even see it until you’re right on top of it. But hit the right gap in the rolling hills of north-central Alabama, and the […]
By Dave Anderson Travis Fisher, a Trump political appointee in the Department of Energy, wrote a 2015 report for the Institute for Energy Research that called clean energy policies “the single greatest emerging threat” to the nation’s electric power grid, and a greater threat to electric reliability than cyber attacks, terrorism or extreme weather. Fisher […]
By Eric Pooley President Trump said recently that the tradition of rating a new president’s first 100 days is “ridiculous.” The White House then created a web page devoted to rating his first 100 days. It’s further proof, if anyone needed it, that the defining feature of this president’s first 100 days is noise. Every […]
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