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Energy News Roundup: Senate Blocks Obama’s Climate Plan, UK To Phase Out Coal & Energy Union On Target

By Conor O'Sullivan

Mitch McConnell Argues Against Proposed EPA Carbon Standards For Power Plants

The Senate voted on Tuesday to block President Obama’s tough new climate change regulations, hoping to undermine his negotiating authority before a major international climate summit meeting in Paris this month. [The NY Times] The UK’s remaining coal-fired power stations will be shut by 2025 with their use restricted by 2023, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd… Keep reading →

 /  Published November 18, 2015 at 1:00 PM

EU Energy Union: Fault Lines Emerge Between Pivotal Member States’ Design Proposals

By Roman Kilisek

Prime Minister David Cameron Tries To Take A Harder Line with Europe

Ahead of the new European Commission’s highly anticipated publication of “proposals on a more closely-linked single energy market” in the first quarter of 2015 as part of a drive to loosen Europe’s energy dependence on Russia, leaked non-papers drawn up by governments of EU member states on the topic are being circulated in Brussels, according… Keep reading →

 /  Published January 23, 2015 at 12:11 PM