Bloomberg
Coal Foe Named to FERC Is Latest Obama Pick Drawing Ire
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission under Binz allowed Xcel to receive a 10.5 percent rate of return on construction costs associated with building natural-gas generators,…
GJ Sentinel
Printed Letters
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed 57 clean-energy bills into law. He now directs The Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
Daily Caller
Fight erupts over Obama’s pick for top US utility regulator
“In Colorado, Binz actually participated in the crafting of legislation that mandated fuel switching from coal to gas for 1,000 megawatts of electricity generation, at…
Journal Star
EPA’s regional haze program costs Nebraska electric utilities millions
"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them…
Washington Examiner
‘War on coal’: 207 coal plants will close in the next decade
William Yeatman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute agrees. "President Obama campaigned on a promise to bankrupt coal, and EPA is now backing up his words,"…
Hot Air
New EPA chief: Can everybody please “stop talking about environmental regulations killing jobs?”
What’s more, they’re increasingly getting in the way of state sovereignty, because they know better, of course: The ALEC report showed that in President Obama’s…