Clean Power Plan

STANTON -- A North Dakota coal-fired power plant scheduled to close within the next year may not be the last one shuttered here, a congressman and a state regulator said this week. Great River Energy announced last week it would retire the Stanton Station power plant in Mercer County...

BISMARCK -- Six counties in North Dakota have received lower air quality grades in an annual report from the American Lung Association. In the past few years, North Dakota has scored all A's in the State of the Air report, but this year six counties received B's: Burleigh, Cass, Dunn,...

BISMARCK – The two Republican members of North Dakota’s congressional delegation joined more than 200 of their House and Senate colleagues Tuesday in filing a brief urging a federal appeals court to overturn the Obama administration’s new rule aimed at curbing carbon dioxide...

BISMARCK – North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple will meet Sunday with the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., to encourage her to reconsider the agency’s new carbon emission standards that were put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Dalrymple...

In regards to the article in the Thursday Press, “SCOTUS Clean Power block scraps state’s plans,” it appears that the only one “disappointed” with the ruling is Wayde Schafer, which is probably of no surprise to anyone. Mr. Shafer has many times in the past espoused a very...

Occasionally, The Press Editorial Board looks at the good, bad and ugly news that recently throughout our region and state. The Good Library could start becoming a reality soon: If the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation gets its way, work could start as early as this...

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Department of Health has suspended work on a state plan that was being developed to comply with the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the rules until legal challenges are resolved. North Dakota’s...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- The electric bills of customers could rise $178 a year to improve Montana Dakota Utilities’ coal-fired power plants. But, MDU is being asked whether the plan makes sense with new pollution regulations coming. At issue is whether customers of MDU should pay for...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Electric cooperatives will likely share in a $5 billion bill to comply with the federal Clean Power Plan, officials said recently.The $5 billion is what Basin Electric Power Cooperative estimates it will need to cut greenhouse gases from its coal-fired power plants...

The middle-aged man next to me said, “I’m going to lose my job at the mine.” The big room at the Bismarck State College Energy Center was filled to standing room only for the public meeting explaining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Job loss for...