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South Carolina: The perfect case study for new EPA power plant rules

The following article is a guest post by Frank Knapp, Jr., President and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce. It was originally published this morning, June 5, on…

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EPA Announces New Limits on Carbon Pollution that Will Protect Health and Tackle Climate Change

This blog was written by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington DC and was originally published on June 2 via NRDC's blog Switchboard.  The Obama Administration announced a major…

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The EPA market manipulation switcheroo

This guest blog was written by Tyson Slocum, the director of Public Citizen's Energy Program, and was originally published on May 30 in The Hill. There is a long history of using Environmental Protection Agency…

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The Chamber is Wrong Again: Carbon Pollution Limits Will Lower Electricity Bills by Billions of Dollars, and Generate Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs, Not the Reverse

This blog was written by Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist at the Climate Center of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington DC and was originally published on May 28 via NRDC's blog Switchboard. …

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Carbon Regulation for Existing Coal Plants On the Horizon

In less than a week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will unveil its first ever carbon pollution standards for existing coal-fired power plants.  These proposed standards are expected to be released on…

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Time for Rick Scott to take climate change seriously

This blog is a guest post written by Kristin Jacobs and Cindy Lerner and was originally published in Florida's Sun Sentinel on May 23, 2014 and can be viewed here if you have…

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A Mother's Missive: Asthmatic Children, Bad Air Days and Carbon Pollution

This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

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Dirty energy takes toll on public health

This post was originally printed in the Orlando Sentinel on May 16 and can be viewed here. Last week, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the congressionally-mandated National Climate Assessment. The…

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5 Ways Tennessee Can Reduce its Power Plant Emissions

This guest blog was written by Michael Obeiter, Kristin Meek and Rebecca Gasper of the World Resources Institute (WRI).  The original post can be found here. A new WRI analysis finds that Tennessee can…

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Governor Scott, What's Your Plan?

There has been a lot of attention paid to climate change impacts to Florida in the past month, including the record rain storms that resulted in the declaration of a state of…