Perfect storm of federal regulations hammering down on the energy industry and state regulations that are having a tremendous impact on the cost of electricity
Ghost Town? AEA video profiles regulatory assault on Craig, Colorado
WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance released Tuesday a video telling the story of Craig, Colo., a small town of approximately 10,000 people and home to the Centennial State’s largest coal-fired power generating plant. But due to Colorado’s energy mandate that requires 30 percent of the state’s electricity generation come from wind, solar, and other renewable sources by the year 2020, and an increasingly hostile regulatory regime at the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Craig is facing tremendous economic uncertainty.