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Supreme Court rules against EPA on pollution rules
Washington Examiner ^ | 6-29-2015 | John Siciliano

Posted on 06/29/2015 7:44:32 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Environmental Protection Agency pollution rules for power plants Monday, in a blow to President Obama's environmental agenda.

The EPA rules in question regulate hazardous air pollutants and mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants, known as the MATS regulations. The regulations went into effect April 16. The utility industry argues that the rules cost them billions of dollars to comply and that EPA ignored the cost issue in putting the regulations into effect.

Many of the companies have either made the investments or closed power plants to comply. If the investments necessary to upgrade a plant to comply with the regulation aren't justified when considering the operational costs, revenues earned and other factors, then the decision is made to retire it.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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KEYWORDS: against; coal; energy; epa; epaoutofcontrol; globalwarminghoax; popefrancis; powerplants; romancatholicism; rules; sc; scotusepa
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To: FreedomNotSafety

After Decades Of Doubt, Deregulation Delivers Lower Electricity Prices
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/10/13/after-decades-of-doubt-deregulation-delivers-lower-electricity-prices/

More than two decades ago, federal and state governments began dismantling electric utilities’ monopoly on generating electric power.

...After a decade of doubt, it has done precisely that.

The trouble is that while wholesale power prices have fallen dramatically, retail power prices have soared. This dynamic may drive a second and more aggressive era of deregulation.

Before deregulation, power was expensive and the grid was cheap. Today, the converse is true. Power is cheap. The grid is not....


41 posted on 06/29/2015 9:22:22 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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"I Ignore Such Things.
Oh, and Death to America!"


42 posted on 06/29/2015 9:39:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
"The EPA had argued that the rules are both appropriate and necessary regardless of the costs"

Wow...

43 posted on 06/29/2015 10:09:41 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: WayneS

What about the “your raisins are yours” decision?


44 posted on 06/29/2015 10:11:42 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Pelham

It was created by executive order, could be ended by one...


45 posted on 06/29/2015 10:19:49 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: jonno

That one is good.

So 2 for 5?


46 posted on 06/29/2015 10:22:25 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Well done!

I like it.


47 posted on 06/29/2015 10:23:20 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: unixfox

Exactly. The government agencies will still require it for a license to operate the facility.


48 posted on 06/29/2015 10:39:22 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: tcrlaf

Good example.

My power plant my husband worked at just laid off 1/4 of their workforce. They have an old plant (but the biggest non-nuclear plant in CA) and the carbon credits are taking away any profit they may have had. The plan is to forestall paying the credits, hoping the energy market will change before the payment is due. If not....bankruptcy. These plants owned by small companies have no choice.

And imagine when that plant - the biggest non-nuclear plant in the state - and many others shut down. Costs will ‘necessarily skyrocket’. It’s not even a coal plant but a ‘clean’ gas turbine plant.


49 posted on 06/29/2015 10:52:32 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Among the retirees will be Breyer, Bader-Ginsburg, Kennedy, and Scalia. “

I’d be surprised if Scalia waits. He has to figure that his staying on is pointless.


50 posted on 06/29/2015 10:53:57 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

“Power companies, despite their pandering protests, love these mandates. Since they are a government controlled monopoly they are guaranteed a “reseanable” return on their investment. Every government diktat from any level is a way of raising costs that results in a return on a larger base.”

Depends on your definition of ‘power company.’ Places like PG&E, yes. Individual power plants, no. It’s the utilities raking in the bucks.


51 posted on 06/29/2015 10:55:43 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: SunkenCiv

That about sums it up.


52 posted on 06/29/2015 11:27:36 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Won't see this on the network news, they are still celebrating the best week of Obama’s presidency

The week began with Obama winning a trade fight over fast-track negotiating authority that looked to be on thin ice even a week ago. He did so by pulling off something even more remarkable and unlikely: successfully collaborating with Republican congressional leaders to find a path to passage of a rare shared priority.

With help from the Repubs Obozo had his best week ever. WHY VOTE? Anyone listen to The Bill Cunningham show Sunday evening? That is all Cunningham could say when interviewing his guests - "WHY SHOULD I VOTE FOR "Republicans"

Read more Washington Compost trash at link above about Obie's BEST WEEK Ever.
53 posted on 06/29/2015 12:01:35 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Uncle Miltie

54 posted on 06/29/2015 12:02:18 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: SoFloFreeper

:’( I’m afraid so.


55 posted on 06/29/2015 12:04:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: unixfox
It will be ignored. So, no victory.

These days FR us full of punks like you posting defeat and despair immediately, crying hopelessness the moment any good news appears.

Just want to point you out for the DU Leftist infiltrator mind-f###er you really are.

56 posted on 06/29/2015 12:26:21 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: dforest
This decision will be ignored. The damage is already done. This lawless and corrupt regime only calls judgments in their favor as “the law of the land”.

See my post #56 and apply it to yourself as well.

57 posted on 06/29/2015 12:29:14 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; rigelkentaurus; x_plus_one
E. Pluribus Unum: Doesn't matter.

rigelkentaurus: this is a small, tiny, irrelevant, narrow ruling, which will be dully noted and ignored.

x_plus_one: Too little too late. No power company will restart, reopen or plan new ventures due to one flimsy supreme court ruling.

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Y'all can cram my Post #56 where the sun don't shine.

58 posted on 06/29/2015 12:35:19 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

You really shouldn’t skip your meds.


59 posted on 06/29/2015 12:37:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
You really shouldn’t skip your meds.

You mean the ones other people take so they let people like you whisper despair in their ears?

No thanks.

60 posted on 06/29/2015 12:42:58 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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