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WV to Lead New Legal Challenge of EPA Power Plant Emissions Regs
Two weeks ago, the Bidenistas at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a hellscape of new regulations 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). West Virginia coal, oil, and natural gas stakeholders, along with state politicians, are not happy. There is noise that WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey will lead a new court challenge against these latest EPA regulations.
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Two weeks ago, the Bidenistas at the EPA issued, for a second time, new regulations aimed at controlling how much carbon dioxide (CO2, the stuff you breathe out with every breath you take) electric power plants can emit. West Virginia intends to overturn the new regulations with a lawsuit, the same as the state did last year (see 
Last week MDN told you the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) had given final approval to Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to install pipe through 3.5 miles of woodlands, and under the Appalachian Trail, in the Jefferson National Forest in Monroe County in West Virginia, in and Giles and Montgomery counties in Virginia for the THIRD time (see 
In November 2021, the Bidenistas initiated a massive power grab to transfer the right of individual states to regulate local natural gas gathering pipelines to the federal government’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (see 
The Dept. of Energy (DOE) grants permission for LNG export facilities to ship LNG to non-free trade agreement countries. It can take years to sign up enough customers (via contracts) and investors to make a “final investment decision” (or FID) to move forward with a project that often approaches $20 billion. LNG builders need to know once the plant is built, it can actually ship to other countries. But the DOE grants its permission to export with a string attached: The plant must get built and begin shipping within seven years–or the permit expires. Until April, LNG builders would routinely ask for an extension to the seven-year period. In April, the DOE changed its policy and declined to extend a permit for Energy Transfer’s Lake Charles LNG project beyond seven years (see 
Earlier this month, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (liberal Democrat from West Virginia) introduced a permitting reform bill (for the third time) to save the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from the clutches of colluding leftists who sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (see 
The PA Environment Digest Blog has been reviewing the reports filed by Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) workers again and noticed a situation at a well pad in Delmar Township, Tioga County. According to DEP reports filed, a Notice of Violation (NOV) was issued to Seneca Resources for a well pad located on DCNR State Forest land last September. Surface water samples from puddles indicate wastewater (brine) from one or more wells spilled onto the ground.
Yesterday the Bidenistas at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a hellscape of new regulations aimed at forcing coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to close. That’s the sum total of what’s contained in a proposed 681-page behemoth new rule released (inflicted) yesterday by the EPA. But that’s not just MDN’s wild claim about this hellscape being created by Biden. 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.”
When the public teat is full of taxpayer money, ready to dispense, and big business can’t get its mouth around that teat to start sucking, big business begins to whine and moan. That about sums up what happened at the Pennsylvania Energy Summit held yesterday in Pittsburgh. The Bidenistas went on a drunken spending spree over the past two years, unleashing what amounts to trillions of dollars to be made available for so-called renewable energy projects via the poorly crafted Infrastructure bill and the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. Now, big business wants to start feeding on that money, but it can’t because it takes too long to get projects permitted. Too bad, so sad.
Since 2015 we’ve reported on the case of Grant Township (Indiana County, PA), a town that passed an ordinance cooked up by the radical Big Green group Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to try and block a state-approved injection well proposed by Pennsylvania General Energy (