AFPM challenges Clean Power Plan

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who is leading the coalition of states, said in a statement that the Clean Power Plan “is one of the most far-reaching energy regulations in this nation’s history”.

Seminole, subject of a current online POWER magazine profile (it will appear in print in December), is uniquely challenged by the administration’s plan to combat global warming.

NRECA is also asking the court to stay the EPA rule while it is under legal challenge “to prevent irreparable harm” to members. Capitol Hill lawmakers announced resolutions, while several groups representing industry and 24 states filed lawsuits in a District of Columbia appeals court. “It is time for the courts to hold EPA accountable to the law and restore power to the American people”.

So far, that’s been the case. No amount of money or power will ever appease the EPA bureaucracy.

The Clean Power Plan, widely regarded as the centerpiece of Obama’s environmental legacy, aims to curb climate change by reducing C02 emissions by 30 percent (based on 2005 levels) in 15 years.

Indiana agriculture depends on reliable and low cost energy, and Pence says that is what our state has been able to provide using coal, “We have historically produced more than 80 percent of our electricity from coal, and Hoosiers know that coal means jobs and low-cost energy”.

This comes as an about turn from the state’s 2007 stance when it ended up on the winning side of a lawsuit that forced the federal Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to climate change. “They were given what they wanted, yet they sued the EPA”.

AFPM President Chet Thompson commented on the rule and the precedent that it sets: “EPA’s Clean Power Plan stands unparalleled in its legal overreach and effect on the USA economy”.

NRECA and dozens of electric co-ops are challenging EPA’s Clean Power Plan in federal court, citing the rule’s potential to shutter coal plants. “Constitutional arguments against the plan are last-ditch attempts to block the transition to clean energy that is already underway”. The plan also calls for 28% of electricity nationally to come from renewable sources, with states expected to comply with the plans by 2022.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt shakes hands at the state capitol after the annual State of the State address.