The War to date: "Defeated" power plants
The Sierra Club of the Obama regime calls these "victories" --
- Power4Georgians Cancels Plans for Ben Hill Coal Plant in Georgia
- Mississippi: State Supreme Court Remands Permit for Kemper Coal Plant
- LS Power Abandons Plans for Longleaf Coal Plant in Georgia
- Michigan: Consumers Energy Abandons Plans for Coal Plant in Bay City
- Proposed Ohio Coal-to-Liquid Refinery Dead
- Minnesota: Public Utilities Commission Cancels Plans to Convert Steam Boiler to Coal
- Arkansas: Eighth Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Turk Coal Plant
- Georgia: Court Remands Air Permit for Longleaf Coal Plant
- West Virginia Air Quality Board Remands Air Permit for Coal-to-Liquids Plant
- 150! Plans for 150 New Coal Plants Scrapped
- Georgia Judge Rejects Air Permit for Proposed Coal Plant in Washington County
- Texas: Fifth Circuit Rules Sandy Creek Coal Plant is Violating the Clean Air Act
- East Kentucky Power Cooperative Agrees to Halt Plans for Smith Coal Plants
- Arkansas: Federal Judge Orders SWEPCO to Stop Construction on Turk Coal Plant Site
- ODEC Delays Plans to Build Massive Coal Plant in Virginia
- Michigan Denies Air Permit for Holland's Proposed Coal Plant
- Kentucky Sends Cash Creek Water Permit Back to Drawing Board
- Michigan Denies Air Permit for Wolverine's Proposed Coal Plant
- Arkansas Supreme Court Invalidates Permit for Turk Plant
- Toquop Coal Plant Abandoned...
- NRG Officially Abandons its Plans to Expand the Big Cajun II Plant in Louisiana!
- Seminole Electric Cooperative Abandons Plans for Massive Coal-Fired Power Plant
- Eastman Chemical Co. Drops Plans for Coal Gasification Plant in Texas
- AMP Abandons Proposed AMP Generating Station in Meigs County, Ohio!
- Utilities Pull Plug on Big Stone II Coal Plant Project
- EPA Remands Air Permit for Desert Rock Plant
- Otter Tail Pulls Out of Big Stone II Coal Plant Project
- Michigan Public Service Commission Rules State does not Need New Coal-Fired Power
- South Carolina: Santee Cooper Cancels Plans for 600 MW Power Plant
- 100th Coal Plant Defeated!
- Arkansas Appeals Court Rejects Permit for Turk Plant
- LS Power Cancels Plan to Build 750 MW Coal Plant in Michigan
- EPA Seeks Remand of Desert Rock Power Plant Permit
- Louisiana: Entergy Puts Little Gypsy Project on Hold for At Least Three Years
- Iowa: Alliant Energy Drops Plans to Build Marshalltown Coal-Fired Plant
- Nevada: LS Power "Indefinitely Postpones" the White Pine Energy Station!
- Northern Michigan University's Air Permit is Remanded Back to MDEQ to Consider CO2 Emissions
- Oklahoma: Shady Point II Plant Dropped. Two is too many!
- Nevada: Ely Energy Center "indefinitely postponed"!
- Montana: Southern Montana Electric Opts for Clean Energy, Abandons Highwood Coal Plant
- Wisconsin: Climate and Costs Force Commission to Deny Plants' Documents
- Illinois: Sierra Club Wins Long Fight Against EnviroPower Plant!
- Oklahoma: Another Plant Loses in Court
- Georgia: Judge Rules Coal Plant Must Regulate Global Warming Emissions
- Kansas: Yet Another Major Victory Against Holcomb Coal Plant
- North Dakota: Company Suspends Efforts to Build Gascoyne 500 Coal Plant
- Missouri: Proposed Norborne Plant Put on Hold
- Utah and Wyoming: PacifiCorp Pulls the Plug on Western Coal Plants
- Washington: Proposed Coal Plant Put on Hold
- Iowa: Sate Regulators Rule Against Coal Plant Application
- Oklahoma: State Regulators Rule Against Coal Plant Application
- Arizona: Community Succeeds in Preventing New Coal Plant
- Florida: Another One Bites the Dust
- Kentucky: Court Says No to Peabody Coal
- Florida: On a Roll Against Coal
- Florida: In Landmark Decision, Florida Pulls the Plug on Massive Coal-Fired Plant Proposal
- Missouri: Sierra Club and Utility Agree to Landmark Global Warming Plan
- Texas: TXU Cancels Plans for 8 of 11 Proposed Coal-Fired Plants
- Illinois: Major Clean Air Victory in Chicago
- Illinois: Historic Settlement with Springfield Utility
- Michigan: Community Succeeds in Keeping Polluting Coal Plant Out
No thought whatsoever for any of the jobs -or families- affected.
And more destruction coming soon:
Obama to announce Tuesday
he will regulate existing power plants
as part of climate strategy
In a statement Saturday afternoon sent via the White House Twitter feed, Obama said that he plans to fulfill the pledge he made in his second inaugural address to “respond to the growing threat of climate change for the sake of our children and future generations.”
“This Tuesday, I’ll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go — a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it,” the president said. “This is a serious challenge — but it’s one uniquely suited to America’s strengths.”
[....]
In Saturday’s statement, Obama emphasized the economic opportunities that could come from tackling carbon emissions. “We’ll need scientists to design new fuels, and farmers to grow them,” he said.
“We’ll need engineers to devise new sources of energy, and businesses to make and sell them.”
AND... whether the Destroyer-in-Chief admits it or not, we'll need COAL.
Posted by: Mannie Sherberg | Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 12:35 PM