Tag: Power Plants

Supreme Court justices unanimously say Maryland program to subsidize natural gas power plants stepped into federal territory.

Energy and Environment

Supreme Court sides with feds in power plant case

John Siciliano · April 19, 2016 7:15 pm

Energy and Environment

A former air chief’s warning about the EPA

John Siciliano · April 18, 2016 12:01 am

The EPA was under a court-enforced deadline Friday to issue a cost study for previously enacted power plant rules cutting mercury and toxic air pollutants. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Energy and Environment

EPA says utilities can meet pollution rules cheaply

John Siciliano · April 15, 2016 5:56 pm

The Supreme Court took up the states' case against the mercury and air pollution standards last year, ruling in their favor on a limited sliver of the rule. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Energy and Environment

States prod Supreme Court to kill EPA pollution rule

John Siciliano · March 19, 2016 12:39 am

Christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency under former President George W. Bush, says climate change is a Republican issue. After all, it was Richard Nixon who created the EPA. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Former Republican EPA chief searches for a middle ground on climate

John Siciliano · March 7, 2016 5:01 am

Chief Justice John Roberts squashed an attempt roll back new pollution standards for power plants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Energy and Environment

Supreme Court slams states’ motion to halt EPA rules

John Siciliano · March 3, 2016 3:31 pm

A group of 20 states asked the court last month to halt the standards. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP)

Energy and Environment

EPA asks Supreme Court to deny states’ motion to halt pollution rules

John Siciliano · March 3, 2016 12:48 am

The BRICK Act was approved, 29-22, along strict party lines. The bill would roll back EPA's deadlines under new pollution rules for the brick and kiln industry, until a court has had time to rule on whether the regulations are lawful. (AP File Photo/Phil Long)

Energy and Environment

House energy panel passes bills targeting EPA rules

John Siciliano · February 25, 2016 5:46 pm

More than two-thirds of utility executives say the EPA should keep or strengthen the Clean Power Plan. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Energy and Environment

Survey: Utility executives are OK with Clean Power Plan

Kyle Feldscher · February 17, 2016 8:16 pm

"If we let the world keep warming as fast as it is, and sea levels rising as fast as they are, and weather patterns keep shifting in more unexpected ways, then before long we are going to have to commit more and more and more of our economic and military resources not to growing opportunity for our people, but to adapting to the various consequences of the changing planet," Obama said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy and Environment

Court decisions could hurt Obama’s climate legacy

John Siciliano · January 17, 2016 5:01 am

Governor wants the state's three coal plants to be shuttered or converted in next four years. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Energy and Environment

Cuomo pledges New York will be coal-free by 2020

Kyle Feldscher · January 13, 2016 11:13 pm

"This rule is the most far-reaching energy regulation in the nation's history, and the EPA simply does not have the legal authority to carry it out," saidÂ West Virginia Attorney General PatrickÂ Morrisey.Â (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

Energy and Environment

Poll: Most support Obama’s power plant regulations

Kyle Feldscher · December 21, 2015 9:37 pm