Tag: Clean Power Plan
Martha Roby: Dismantling the regulatory regime
Throughout the eight long years of the Obama Administration, Alabamians suffered under an overly-empowered regulatory state that burdened hardworking men and women and their...
Daniel Sutter: Forget Paris
President Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord last week, setting off a firestorm of criticism. For instance, a New...
Donald Trump’s vow to bring back coal gives hope to weary...
The hard-eyed view along the Tug Fork River in West Virginia coal country is that President-elect Donald Trump has something to prove: that he'll...
Attorney General, coalition of states announce plan to ask federal court...
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange announced over the weekend he would join a group of mostly Republican states to ask a federal court permanently nix Environmental...
Alabama among 28 states calling on US Supreme Court to stay...
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said Tuesday that the state has joined 27 other states to demand the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the...
Daniel Sutter: Bad economics produces poor policy
Do you care about the mileage your car gets? Some economists, and the bureaucrats at the Department of Energy (DoE), don’t think so, and...
Senate votes to repeal Obama admin’s Clean Power Plan
The Republican-led U.S. Senate voted to repeal the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan Tuesday evening.
The resolution S.J.Res. 24, was approved by a 52-46 vote in the...
Vote to repeal Clean Power Plan likely coming Tuesday
The GOP-led U.S. Senate will reportedly vote to repeal the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan in the coming days, perhaps as early as Tuesday evening.
Discontent...
Daniel Sutter: The U.S. hurricane drought
Last weekend marked ten years since Hurricane Wilma struck Florida as a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale. Wilma was the...
Alabama, states reliant on fossil fuels sue over new clean air...
States and industry groups dependent on fossil fuels filed court challenges Friday to President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse...
