The Energy Department’s orders to keep the J.H. Campbell plant running are driving up costs and pollution. States and advocates are challenging the move in court.
There is no energy emergency. He’s just trying to block Michigan’s actually good climate laws that require the regulated utilities to go 100% clean by 2040.
And even if there were, fix it with more renewables, battery storage, and better transmission, not by propping up an old coal plant.
he doesn’t represent anyone but the petrostate whose power over the people is tied to the things burried within the earth itself
I can’t understand where the DOE gets authority over a state in this case. Anyone?
Well the reality answer is rules don’t exist anymore and they are just doing whatever the fuck they want.
The flimsy reasoning they’re using likely has to do with Michigan being a part of the Eastern Interconnection power grid, so what they do with their energy production affects a lot more states than just Michigan, so it makes sense for it to be Federally controlled. Only Texas has their own, independent, power grid.
