VOA News The U.S. Supreme Court has put on hold President Obama's plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's power plants. Obama announced the regulations in August as a way to fight climate change, saying states had until September 2016 to come up with their own plans to meet a target of reducing emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels. But a group of 27 states balked at the Clean Power Plan and filed a lawsuit, saying it amounted to an overstep by the Environmental Protection Agency and would unnecessarily hurt businesses and cost jobs. The...
US Supreme Court Suspends Obama's Carbon Emissions Cuts
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Obama vows to press ahead on Clean Power Plan after setback
WASHINGTON (AP) — The administration of President Barack Obama is vowing to press ahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions after a divided Supreme Court put his signature plan to address climate change on hold until after legal challenges are resolved. Tuesday’s surprising move by the court is a blow to Obama and a victory for the coalition of 27 mostly Republican-led states and industry opponents, who call the regulations “an unprecedented power grab.” By issuing the temporary freeze, a 5-4 majority of the justices signaled that opponents made strong arguments against the rules. The high court’s four liberal justices said...
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Supreme Court puts Obama's Clean Power Plan on hold
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to halt enforcement of President Barack Obama’s sweeping plan to address climate change until after legal challenges are resolved. The surprising move is a blow to the administration and a victory for the coalition of 27 mostly Republican-led states and industry opponents that call the regulations “an unprecedented power grab.” By issuing the temporary freeze, a 5-4 majority of the justices signaled that opponents made strong arguments against the rules. The high court’s four liberal justices said Tuesday they would have denied the request for delay. The Obama administration’s plan aims to stave...
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TAB's Daily Message for Wednesday, Feb. 10 (TAB - Texas Association of Business)
(Source: TAB - Texas Association of Business) This is some great news! Bill Hammond CEO http://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/20160209-supreme-court-puts-obama-s-clean-power-plan-on-hold.ece Supreme Court puts Obama's Clean Power Plan on hold WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to halt enforcement of President Barack Obama's sweeping plan to address climate change until after legal challenges are resolved. The surprising move is a blow to the administration and a victory for the coalition of 27 mostly Republican-led states - among them Texas - and industry opponents that call the regulations 'an unprecedented power grab.' By issuing the temporary freeze, a 5-4 majority of...
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PennFuture: PA must lead on climate reductions despite SCOTUS Clean Power... (EAP - Energy Association ...
(Source: EAP - Energy Association of Pennsylvania) For Immediate Release Contact: Lauren Fraley fraley@pennfuture.org February 10, 2016 office: 412-456-2372 mobile: 724-747-0692 PennFuture: PA must lead on climate reductions despite SCOTUS Clean Power Plan stay Harrisburg, PA (February 10, 2016) - In the wake of Tuesday's unusual Supreme Court action, PennFutureis calling for a redoubling of Pennsylvania's efforts to take immediate and decisive action to reduce carbon emissions. 'We are optimistic that the legal merits of the Clean...
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Obama Vows to Push Ahead With Clean Energy After Supreme Court Setback
More President Obama Sends $4 Trillion Budget to CongressLoretta Lynch Will Visit 6 Cities to Highlight Police AchievementsPresident Obama Wants $1.8 Billion to Fight Zika Virus (WASHINGTON) — The administration of President Barack Obama is vowing to press ahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions after a divided Supreme Court put his signature plan to address climate change on hold until after legal challenges are resolved. Tuesday’s surprising move by the court is a blow to Obama and a victory for the coalition of 27 mostly Republican-led states and industry opponents, who call the regulations “an unprecedented power grab.” By issuing the...
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Supreme Court puts Obama's clean energy plans on hold
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to halt enforcement of President Barack Obama's sweeping plan to address climate change until after legal challenges are resolved. The surprising move is a blow to the administration and a victory for the coalition of 27 mostly Republican-led states and industry opponents that call the regulations "an unprecedented power grab." By issuing the temporary freeze, a 5-4 majority of the justices signaled that opponents made strong arguments against the rules. The high court's four liberal justices said Tuesday they would have denied the request for delay. The Obama administration's plan aims to stave off the worst predicted impacts of...
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Did the Supreme Court Doom the Paris Climate Change Deal?
An activist protests near the site of the UN conference on climate change last December, which produced the agreement. Thibault Camus / AP On Tuesday, the Supreme Court did something without precedent. It temporarily stopped the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, a set of electricity-industry regulations that serve as the centerpiece of the White House’s climate-change strategy. Technically, the Supreme Court “stayed” the rules, meaning the Environmental Protection Agency cannot enforce them until the justices themselves decide their legality. The high court has never before issued a stay on a set of regulations before their initial review by a federal appeals court. And all through...
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Scalia Vacancy Boosts Prospects for Obama's Carbon-Cutting Plan
The Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death improves the outlook for President Barack Obama’s controversial plan to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants, just a week after the court raised doubts about its viability. “The math changes completely,” said FBR Capital Markets analyst Benjamin Salisbury. Scalia, one of the fiercest critics of the Environmental Protection Agency’s air-pollution regulations, voted Feb. 9 to halt enforcement of the Clean Power Plan program while it was being challenged in a lower court. The 5-4 decision signaled that a majority of the justices had “real problems” with the plan and could overturn it, Salisbury said. The Feb. 13...
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The EPA and the Balrog
There was always something suspicious about the Supreme Court's key 2007 decision on climate change, Mass. v. EPA, that gave the Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. How could a majority right wing court that always backs big business possibly have ruled that carbon dioxide was a pollutant? Why would the conservative Roberts court put in place the foundation of a strong national climate policy -- the Clean Power Plan -- that later led to a strong global agreement on climate? It always seemed too good to be true. It turns out it was. It may be that the court did not fully...
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Renewable energy efforts stymied by transmission roadblocks
Mike McKeown opens the back door of his Missouri farm house and is met with a chilly gust. "Stupid wind," he mutters. Today, the winds that blow through his corn and soybean farm have become more than just an irritant. The homestead in northern Missouri, which his family has owned for nearly 70 years, sits smack in the path of a proposed high-voltage line that would carry renewable energy from the wind-whipped plains of western Kansas to power-thirsty cities farther east. And McKeown doesn't like that. Due partly to the intense opposition from local property owners, Missouri regulators have blocked the 780-mile-long Grain Belt Express power line from being built. In doing so, they have...
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Statements From Advanced Energy Economy On EPA's Final Rule Under Section 111(d) Of The Clean Air Act (Clean Power Plan)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a national business association, issued the following statements from Malcolm Woolf, Senior Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, in response to the Environmental Protection Agency's final rule for carbon emissions from the electric power sector: OVERALL REACTION: "AEE and its member companies see the Clean Power Plan as an opportunity to modernize the electric power system for the 21st century, and today's release of the final rule begins to make that opportunity a reality. By making use of advanced energy technologies and services for compliance, states will be able to improve reliability,...
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HILLARY CLINTON’S RADICAL JOB-KILLING ENERGY PLAN (Donald J Trump)
(Source: Donald J Trump) - August 12, 2016 - Hillary Clinton's Embrace Of President Obama's Radical Environmental Agenda Will Kill Jobs And Hurt The Economy Clinton Has Praised President Obama's Radical Environmental Agenda And Has Vowed To Expand Upon It: Clinton Has Vowed To 'Defend And Build On' The Obama Administration's Anti-Coal Regulations, Which Has Earned Her Support From Environmentalists But Led To Concerns From Labor Unions. 'Clinton was quick last week to praise President Obama's stricter rules on coal-fired power plants, vowing to both defend and build on them. Her stance won plaudits from environmentalists within her party, but unions, a key constituency, are concerned she has...
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Obama's clean energy plan expected to boost renewables
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News 31 July 2015 From the section Science & Environment Over six hundred coal fired power stations across the US face restrictions under White House plans After a year of consultations and over 4 million public comments, President Obama's Clean Power Plan will be finalised early next week. The strategy will outline restrictions on CO2 from electricity that individual states will have to implement. To give reluctant states more time to comply, the starting date is expected to be delayed by 2 years. It's likely that new supports for renewable energy will also be announced. In June last year the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) first put...
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Impacts of the 2016 U.S. Election on Environmental Law, Policy, and Enforcement (Beveridge & Diamond PC)
(Source: Beveridge & Diamond PC) Impacts of the 2016 U.S. Election on Environmental Law, Policy, and Enforcement Edited by David Friedland November 16, 2016 for a PDF of this alert. The 2016 election results will have wide-ranging impacts on the future direction of environmental law, policy, and enforcement in the U.S. With 100 lawyers in offices around the U.S. focused on environmental and natural resource law and litigation, Beveridge & Diamond helps clients navigate legal and business risks arising from this evolving legal landscape. Informed by decades of work for companies in numerous industry sectors, we asked a cross-section of our lawyers practicing in various areas of environmental...
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Wind power or hot air? Foes question Christie’s shift on clean energy. (EAP - Energy Association of Pennsylvania)
(Source: EAP - Energy Association of Pennsylvania) ATLANTIC CITY - Just off this city's famous coastline is one of the windiest stretches of the Mid-Atlantic, where constant breezes can fill a sail or - in theory - turn the blades of a wind turbine. It's a place the state's Republican governor invoked in 2010 in pledging to make New Jersey a wind superpower. Left to right: New Jersey Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection commissioner Bob Martin and Assemblyman John J. Burzichelli listen as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie discusses plans for the Paulsboro Marine Terminal on Aug. 19, 2010. (Mel Evans/Associated Press)...
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The New Coal, Hot Water, Clean Energy Justice, and More!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded. When we harm forests, we harm ourselves. Unique Giraffe Beetle, another biodiversity wonder, is threatened as Madagascar's forests continue to be destroyed. Wikipedia OO International Embargo On Exports Of Precious Woods Extended - by the international regulating CITES committee, even as the country fails to enforce the current one that allows the continued destruction of dwindling, threatened forests. Humanity Continues to Eat Forests Source Mongabay.com OO Global Deforestation Is Speeding Up - over 60% between 1990-2010, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery, countering a previous global UN FAO study, which looked...
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The Energy Efficiency Free Market Act: A Step Toward Real Energy Efficiency (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) August 17, 2016 | Backgrounder on Energy and Environment By Katie Tubb, Nicolas Loris and Paul Larkin The federal government mandates energy efficiency of Americans' cars, trucks, appliances, and buildings. Under the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), the Department of Energy now regulates some 60 common appliances, such as ceiling fans, battery chargers, washers and dryers, microwaves, ovens, and refrigerators. Such micromanagement controls and reduces choices for American families and businesses, has little to no environmental impact, benefits the rich at the expense of the poor, and encourages corporate welfare. H.R. 4504, the Energy...
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Final RUSH Transcript//CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate- University of Miami (CNN - Cable News Network Inc)
(Source: CNN - Cable News Network Inc) TAPPER: Live from the Bank United Center on the campus of the University of Miami, this is the CNN Republican Presidential debate. For our viewers in the United States and around the world, welcome to Miami Florida, I'm Jake Tapper. TAPPER: In just five days voters will go to the polls here in this state as well as in Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. The race for the Republican nomination for president could change dramatically. Florida and Ohio each have a large number of delegates at stake and they award all of them to the candidate who wins. They're a winner-take-all state. So that's the first time that will happen in this primary season...
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Read the Full Transcript of the Twelfth Republican Debate in Miami
The four Republican presidential candidates met for their 12th debate in Miami Thursday. CNN hosted the debate featuring real estate mogul Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The moderator was CNN anchor Jake Tapper. Here is a partial transcript. TAPPER: Live from the Bank United Center on the campus of the University of Miami, this is the CNN Republican Presidential debate. For our viewers in the United States and around the world, welcome to Miami Florida, I’m Jake Tapper. TAPPER: In just five days voters will go to the polls here in this state as well as in Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. The race for the Republican...
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