The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying climate regulations for power plants to “better consider input on them and better align the major pieces of the regulations.” The agency is now planning to finalize rules for newly built plants, existing plants, and modified plants all at once. That should come this summer. The EPA Continue reading
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EPA Delays Finalizing Climate Control Rules
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Meteorologists Predict Tough Winter Without Coal
Energy consumers are in for a hard winter. That’s according to meteorologists at WeatherBELL Analytics. The forecasters say current weather patterns are “flowing along right now into the type of El Niño situation that is notorious for giving the United States cold, snowy winters, especially in the southern Continue reading
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Colorado Lawmakers React to New EPA Rule
Colorado lawmakers are split, mostly along party lines, when it comes to reactions to the EPA’s rollout of new carbon emission control measures yesterday. Both Senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall praised the new rules as a victory in the fight against climate change. The rules are expected to cost Americans Continue reading
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McCarthy Rolls Out New Carbon Emission Rules
President Obama decided to let EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy roll out new EPA rules on carbon emissions today, instead of announcing them himself. The rules are expected to cost the U.S. economy over Continue reading
Kinkaid to Talk Cap and Trade on Amy Oliver Show
Moffat County Commissioner John Kinkaid will be a guest on the Amy Oliver Show tomorrow morning. The show is a conservative radio talk program in Greeley, and Oliver has been a featured guest speaker in Northwest Colorado. Kinkaid says they will be discussing President Obama’s upcoming cap and trade system he plans to force on power plants in the U.S. The president Continue reading
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