Big News: DC Court Throws out Fossil Fuel Company Attempt to Hold up new EPA regs (Obama's Clean Power Plan) on dirty power plants (Utility Dive)

DC Circuit Court denies stay on EPA Clean Power Plan

By Gavin Bade | January 21, 2016 

Dive Brief:

• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday denied a request to halt implementation of the EPA Clean Power Plan until litigation on the regulatory package has concluded.
• The stay was requested by a coalition of states and fossil fuel interests, led by West Virginia, which argued that they would suffer irreparable harm if the D.C. Circuit did not put a judicial stay on the emissions regulations, which seek to cut carbon pollution from the power sector 32% by 2030.
• The three-judge panel fast-tracked consideration of the case, setting June 2 as the date to hear oral arguments on the Clean Power Plan's legality. Regardless of how the D.C. Circuit rules, observers widely expect the Supreme Court to take up the case.
• READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE.

See if your state was one of the ones suing to keep polluting (good old Missouri is):

http://www.eenews.net/interactive/clean_power_plan#legal_challenge_status_chart

on the Clean Power Plan, this handy starting point:

http://www.eenews.net/interactive/clean_power_plan/fact_sheets/rule

Lecture 3 - Links and Videos related to lecture "Oil and American Cultural History"

Current Events

1. Oil price drops means bust cycle hitting towns like Midland, TX

 cyclicality of fossil fuel economies

2. State of the Union Address “climate change” (not “global warming”) & Republican response “[white] working people”; the “Keystone Jobs Bill” Obama will “block good American jobs” no climate mention…Republicans censored version; Boehner: "inadvertent"

3. Peabody Energy named Energy Company of the Year by Platts

Greg Boyce, CEO  stock-price way down but “it will come back” & “technology solutions, not regulatory solutions” – Peabody response to#SOTU "pain at the plug"

4. NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., ACCCE & ‘clean coal’ state of the union & Business Owner ad

ACCCE: American Coalition for Clean CoalElectricity (industry front group, includes Ameren, Peabody, & number of other companies, now hidden), ties to ALEC

Recent publication “The Social Benefitsof Carbon”  (see my earlier discussion of the ACCCE's view of science with regard to Peabody, Ameren, and WUSTL connections).

Sourcewatch page on ACCCE; Polluter Watch & Wikipedia ACCCE forgery scandal

ACCCE (aka "America's Power" on Twitter: 
Obama is on a “climate crusade” with “calamitous consequences”