Why EPA’s New Gas Power Reg Will Get Struck Down by Court
In May, the Bidenistas at the EPA released a hellscape of new regulations (681 pages) aimed at forcing coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to close (see New Biden EPA Regs a “Death Sentence” for Fossil-Fuel Power Plants). The editors of the Wall Street Journal called the new EPA regulations “An EPA Death Sentence for Fossil-Fuel Power Plants,” with the subtitle “The Biden agency’s new rule means the end of natural gas-fueled electricity.” Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a far less onerous set of EPA regs attempting to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants (see West Virginia Wins Supreme Court Case Against EPA re Power Plants). According to Mario Loyola, a professor at Florida International University and senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, EPA’s newest version of those regs (from May) will certainly get challenged and almost certainly will be thrown out, as was the case last year.
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Penneco Environmental Solutions wants to site a second injection well in Plum Boro, next to an existing one. Penneco’s first wastewater injection well in Plum finally opened for business in mid-2021, overcoming all sorts of smears, slanders, and lawsuits by the enviro-left (see 
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Feedgas flows from the Marcellus/Utica to the Cove Point LNG export facility located on the shore of Maryland fell to zero yesterday. It was the start of the facility’s annual maintenance outage. The question is, how long will Cove Point be out of commission for liquefying and exporting LNG? There are conflicting reports. Last year, the facility was closed from Oct. 1-27 — nearly a month! In most years, the closure lasts around three weeks (
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