Jun 19 Energy & Environment Trump Administration Replaces Obama-Era Climate Change Rule On Power Plants The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday released its long-awaited final replacement for the Obama administration’s signature climate change regulation, which sought to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by one-third by 2025. The Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule, or ACE, tasks states with developing plans that rely on the use of efficiency technologies […] By Brittany Patterson Jun 19 Energy & Environment Trump Administration Replaces Obama-Era Climate Change Rule On Power Plants Brittany Patterson
Aug 24 Energy & Environment Trump Power: Industry Analysts Say New Rule Will Not Fuel Coal Comeback When President Trump wants to talk coal, he comes to West Virginia. So it was not surprising that the president visited Charleston just hours after his administration unveiled a long-awaited overhaul of the Obama administration’s signature climate change regulation, the Clean Power Plan. “We’re cancelling Obama’s illegal, anti-coal-destroying regulations. The so-called Clean Power Plan,” Trump […] By Brittany Patterson Aug 24 Energy & Environment Trump Power: Industry Analysts Say New Rule Will Not Fuel Coal Comeback Brittany Patterson
Aug 22 Economy In Ohio Valley Visits, Trump Administration Pushes Policies Supporting Mining And Metals In back-to-back events this week President Trump and his commerce secretary visited the Ohio Valley to tout administration policies aimed at propping up two of the region’s traditional but faltering industries — metals and mining. The president used a Tuesday rally filled with West Virginia coal miners to unveil a new plan to ease pollution […] By Jeff Young , Becca Schimmel and Brittany Patterson Aug 22 Economy In Ohio Valley Visits, Trump Administration Pushes Policies Supporting Mining And Metals Jeff Young, Becca Schimmel and Brittany Patterson
Dec 1 Energy & Environment R.I.P., CPP? Clean Energy Trend Likely To Continue Despite Trump’s Clean Power Repeal West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey stood in front of the state’s capitol to rally the roughly 120 coal miners and industry boosters gathered there. “The fight against the unlawful Clean Power Plan started in Charleston, West Virginia,” Morrisey said, noting the state’s role in a legal challenge to the Obama-era rule. The federal rule […] By Glynis Board Dec 1 Energy & Environment R.I.P., CPP? Clean Energy Trend Likely To Continue Despite Trump’s Clean Power Repeal Glynis Board
Nov 28 Energy & Environment Clean Power Plan’s Repeal Gets Hearing In Coal Country The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency returned to friendly terrain in coal country this week for two days of public hearings on its proposal to repeal a key federal rule aimed at reducing pollution that contributes to climate change. Last month EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt chose an eastern Kentucky mining town as the venue to […] By Glynis Board Nov 28 Energy & Environment Clean Power Plan’s Repeal Gets Hearing In Coal Country Glynis Board
Oct 11 Energy & Environment Coal Comfort: Trump’s EPA And Energy’s Winners And Losers The Environmental Protection Agency’s move to end the Clean Power Plan is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to support the struggling coal industry. The Department of Energy is also pushing a new way to subsidize coal power. But a new study suggests market forces — not regulations — will still make more coal power plants […] By Glynis Board Oct 11 Energy & Environment Coal Comfort: Trump’s EPA And Energy’s Winners And Losers Glynis Board
Oct 9 Energy & Environment EPA’s Pruitt Visits Kentucky Coal Country To End Clean Power Plan Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt used a trip to Kentucky coal country to announce the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle a regulation that sought to limit carbon pollution. Pruitt visited Hazard, Kentucky, to make official what had long been anticipated: that he plans to halt implementation of the Clean Power Plan. The Obama-era regulation […] By Glynis Board Oct 9 Energy & Environment EPA’s Pruitt Visits Kentucky Coal Country To End Clean Power Plan Glynis Board
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