Early Legal Attack On Climate Regs

Appeals court to hear challenge to EPA climate regs.

The Hill:
"A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., will hear oral arguments Thursday ... Murray Energy Corp., a major coal mining company, is asking the court to do something that it admits is extraordinary: block the EPA from completing the work on its regulation and making the rule final, which it plans to do this summer ... the court randomly assigned three of its most conservative judges to the panel hearing the case."

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/238863-obamas-climate-change-plan-faces-crucial-test



Dems rip Sen. Maj. Leader McConnell for encouraging resistance to federal regs.

The Hill:
"Five Senate Democrats, “Five Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), penned a letter to the nation’s governors Tuesday saying that McConnell’s views on climate change are out of line with his own Kentucky constituents, and urging states to comply with the climate rule.”

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/238805-dems-hit-back-at-mcconnell-ask-states-to-follow-climate-rule


Tipping point for clean energy.

Bloomberg:
” The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there’s no going back … by 2030 more than four times as much renewable capacity will be added.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-14/fossil-fuels-just-lost-the-race-against-renewables




If there's one energy company that should have no voice in regs, it's much-fined, safety-oblivioys Murray Energy.