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Another coal plant to go off-line

SWEPCO, an affiliate of a power company that was once the country's biggest coal burner, is taking a coal-fired plant offline. This will mean cleaner air in northwest Louisiana and, incidentally, a reduction in costs for SWEPCO ratepayers in Arkansas.
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Trump backs dirty air

The Trump administration has weakened clean air rules in an effort to prop up the coal industry and outdated power plants that coal fuels.
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SWEPCO looking for more wind energy

Southwestern Electric Power Company, which serves many customers in Arkansas, issued a release today saying it was asking for proposals to provide 1,200 megawatts of additional wind-generated energy by the end of 2021.

SWEPCO invests in Oklahoma wind farm

SWEPCO plans a big investment in wind power. Wonder what Arkansas politicians who've been fighting another wind project and generally love coal thinks bout that.
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Big news except in Arkansas: The shift from coal

Ernest Dumas this week points out the enormous significance of American Electric Power's decision to depart the conservative ALEC political lobby because it can no longer support that organization's diehard support for the dirty energy of coal-fired electricity production.

A win for the EPA on air quality, a black eye on water regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won a victory in the D.C. Court of Appeals today on its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. On a political level, that's probably outweighed by a slapdown offered yesterday by a congressional watchdog agency concerning another regulation, the Waters of the United States rule. Arkansas AG Leslie Rutledge is in the middle of both fights.
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Federal court again sets back Rutledge attack on clean power plan

The Sierra Club happily announces that the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has again turned back a challenge by Attorney General Leslie Rutledge to the EPA's plan to clean up power plant emissions.

Political smog v. clean air

Here we go again, another fruitless skirmish in the great War on Coal, coming to a battlefield near you.
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President Obama's clean air plan, the Arkansas angle

President Obama unveils his proposal for reducing pollution by greenhouse gases and it should only increase the opposition from business and Republican politicians who've already been protesting the plan.

Cotton on climate change: Yes, it's probably real, but let the market handle it

At a lunchtime panel today on energy policy, Cotton devoted most of his time to criticizing Obama's energy and climate policy. But he also acknowledged that there just might possibly be a relationship between a warming planet and the activities of mankind, albeit in the most qualified and circumspect way.
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Coal is NOT the only way to generate power; TVA switching to gas

TVA switches to gas to comply with new EPA clean-air rules. Why wouldn't it ever occur to an Arkansas politician that we could so the same?

It's unanimous: All leading Ark. politicians oppose a reduction of air pollution in the state

Asa Hutchinson, the Republican candidate for governor, called a news conference today to say he'd fight proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules that would require anti-pollution improvements to Arkansas's coal-burning power plants.
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