{"id":8305,"date":"2015-05-20T06:29:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2015-05-20T06:29:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:29:03","slug":"coal-is-doomed-even-if-it-wins-against-epa-in-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8305","title":{"rendered":"Coal Is Doomed Even If It Wins Against EPA In Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Coal\/Coal-Is-Doomed-Even-If-It-Wins-Against-EPA-In-Courts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Coal Is Doomed Even If It Wins Against EPA In Courts<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The controversy over the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Clean Power Plan has become the latest chapter in the chronicle of President Obama\u2019s so-called \u2018war on coal\u2019. The plan promises many things, chief among them the health and climate benefits accrued by switching to cleaner burning fuels. But a case before the DC Circuit Court has the potential to derail the plan before it even comes into effect, with implications for US coal producers and the national clean energy debate.<\/p>\n<p>The new regulations have their critics, led by coal companies and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R- KY), who has personally urged the nation\u2019s 50 governors to ignore the rules. While this may seem like just another example of partisan politics, the latest case, if successful, could seriously curtail the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) powers. A victory for coal would be a blow for the environmental lobby and the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute over the Clean Power Plan centers on its proposal to cut pollution from power plants by assigning tough emissions reductions targets on a state-by-state basis. The goal is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.epa.gov\/carbon-pollution-standards\/fact-sheet-clean-power-plan-benefits\">to reduce carbon pollution<\/a>\u00a0from the power sector by 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels. Existing coal-fired plants, as the biggest polluters, will be the most affected. Opponents argue that the federal government is overreaching its regulatory authority prescribed under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. The EPA is expected to release the final rules midsummer this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal Is Doomed Even If It Wins Against EPA In Courts The controversy over the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Clean Power Plan has become the latest chapter in the chronicle of President Obama\u2019s so-called \u2018war on coal\u2019. The plan promises many things, chief among them the health and climate benefits accrued by switching to cleaner burning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5538,147,4292,3185,1470,1015,1962],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-clean-power-plan","tag-coal","tag-coal-industry","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-epa","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-war-on-coal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}