Appeals court refuses to halt power plant rules

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to halt the Obama administration's new clean air standards for power plants while opponents wage a legal challenge.

The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday rejected an emergency request from 15 states and Peabody Energy Corp. to temporarily block the sweeping plan that would require states to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants.

West Virginia and other coal-reliant states have been leading opposition to the plan, which would mandate a 32 percent cut in emissions nationwide by 2030.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the White House have said they believe the limits are legal and rejected an earlier request to put them on hold.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/16de04f1f34f45be9d0ec85e9c635822/appeals-court-refuses-halt-power-plant-rules

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This is a big win for Mr. Obama.

Watch the Wing-Nuttery go ballistic tomorrow morning on how Obama is Killing the jobs of all those laid off coal miners and we need that so called clean coal. Orin Hatch where are you? Interesting on the number of out of compliance Coal Power Plant that will now be shut down. Hey we will be able to see the Mountains again,only been 30 years.

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2. This will destroy thousands of very well paying jobs

and double your electric rates.

[Omaha Steve]

3. Mother Jones: Surprise! EPA's New Power Plant Rules Aren't Going to Destroy America After All.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/07/surprise-epas-new-power-plant-rules-arent-going-destroy-america-after-all

—By Kevin Drum | Fri Jul. 24, 2015 12:13 AM EDT

Whenever a new environmental regulation gets proposed, there's one thing you can count on: the affected industry will start cranking out research showing that the cost of compliance is so astronomical that it will put them out of business. It happens every time. Then, when the new regs take effect anyway, guess what? It turns out they aren't really all that expensive after all. The country gets cleaner and the economy keeps humming along normally. Hard to believe, no?

Apologies for the spoiler, but can you guess what's happening now that President Obama's new carbon rules for power plants are about to take effect? Mitch "War on Coal" McConnell has been issuing hysterical warnings about these regulations for years, but the Washington Post reports that—sorry, did you say something? You've already guessed, have you?

More striking is what has happened since: Kentucky’s government and electric utilities have quietly positioned themselves to comply with the rule — something state officials expect to do with relatively little effort....“We can meet it,” Kentucky Energy and Environment Secretary Leonard Peters, speaking at a climate conference, said of the EPA’s mandate.

FULL story at link