clean power plan

August 21, 2018 Rob Port

The Obama administration hated coal power. The former president's detractors referred to his policy agenda in this policy area as...

October 13, 2017 Rob Port

Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, did a big favor for states like ours that use coal to generate...

May 2, 2017 Rob Port

Back during last year's election I had lunch with then-gubernatorial candidate Doug Burgum and we talked about then-presidential candidate Donald...

September 19, 2016 Rob Port

"Most states on track to meet emissions targets they call burden, but not North Dakota" That was a headline from Reuters...

February 24, 2016 Rob Port

Yesterday news broke that two members of North Dakota's congressional delegation had signed on to an amicus brief in the...

January 21, 2016 Rob Port

Some pretty ugly news for coal states like North Dakota today coming out of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. A...

December 1, 2015 Rob Port

Back in October when the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan hit the federal register dozens of states joined together to...

November 25, 2015 Rob Port

Last week I wrote a post responding to a letter to the editor published in several of the state's newspapers...

November 11, 2015 Rob Port

In August the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. Although this plan has been discussed frequently...

November 10, 2015 Rob Port

The State of North Dakota filed suit against the federal government over the draconian emissions reductions mandated by the Obama...