Republican leadership in the Arizona state legislature and the Arizona Trucking Association are suing the United States Environmental Protection Agency over an electric vehicle mandate. The two lawsuits in a federal appeals court in Washington D.C. focus on the EPA’s desire to have more electric vehicles on the market. Specifically, those suing are taking issue with the EPA’s rule to pivot to having 70% of vehicles overall, including a quarter of “heavy-duty vehicles," be electric by 2032,...
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From the column: "(The utility's) next long-term energy-resource plan must remove its proposed NTEC methane gas plant and anticipate an earlier retirement date for the coal-fired Boswell plant."
“This rule intentionally sets impossible standards to destroy the coal industry,” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said Thursday.
Senator Shelley Moore Capito grilled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief over final rules requiring coal-fired power plants in the United States to reduce 90% of their greenhouse pollution into the next decade. Capito, R-W.Va., posed her questions Wednesday during a meeting of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, where she is ranking
The power plant rule that EPA announced on April 25 closely resembles Obama’s Clean Power Plan in key respects — and it will almost certainly suffer the same fate.
EPA says generators can achieve compliance with carbon capture and sequestration, but that technology “has not been proven at a commercial scale,” said NRECA CEO Jim Matheson.
The Israeli military intensified its attacks on northern Gaza on Monday, battling a regrouped Hamas in areas it said it had cleared and renewing questions over Israeli strategy in the war as the United States issued some of its harshest public criticism yet. Also, a secret Hamas police force in Gaza conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to NYT reporting. NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent...
Joe Rogan, the veteran UFC commentator and host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, recently shared his thoughts on the rules governing mixed martial arts (MMA). Specifically, he highlighted a regulation that he believes could enhance the sport. The PRIDE FC Influence Rogan expressed admiration for the now-defunct PRIDE FC’s approach to fights. He pointed out that PRIDE had a 10-minute first round, which he considered superior. According to Rogan, the current UFC rules fall short in this...
The NFL kickoff is going to have a wildly different look this year after
It was an emotional day for Madix and Sandoval.
The High Court in Belfast has decided that parts of the Illegal Migration Act undermine human rights protections under the Windsor Framework.