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  • Dempsey: Colorado coal communities saved from costly power plan

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    Stan Dempsey

    Many Americans have already forgotten about the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the Obama administration’s signature effort to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants – but not the nation’s coal communities. They’ve lived with this regulation as an ever-present threat even after its implementation was stayed by a federal court. Colorado’s coal communities saw…

  • Trump’s election poses challenge for Colorado environment policy

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    Tom Ramstack

    Gov. John Hickenlooper’s stated goal of attaining “the cleanest air possible” took a severe blow this month after the election of Donald Trump as president. Hickenlooper is a supporter of some version of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which would require tighter restrictions on power plant emissions. Trump’s new resources as president could easily allow…

  • In jail, ex-coal CEO says he’s ‘American political prisoner’

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    Jared Wright

    A defiant Don Blankenship declared himself an “American political prisoner” on his blog, blaming others for the 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 men and led the former West Virginia coal operator to be imprisoned. The ex-Massey Energy CEO said this week that he plans to distribute 250,000 copies of the 67-page diatribe in booklet…

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