Clean energy firing up in region

Despite Trump`s order to gut Obama plan, utilities expand use of renewable sources

President Donald Trump’s recent move to roll back a key aspect of his predecessor’s environmental legacy prompted harsh criticism from environmental groups and celebration among some energy companies and coal mining advocates.

But two major power companies in west-central Wisconsin responded with a collective shrug to Trump signing executive orders calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take steps to dismantle former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a set of rules regulating energy plants powered by fossil fuels that had yet to take effect.

Officials from Xcel Energy and Dairyland Power Cooperative, which both generate some electricity from coal-fired power plants, indicated Trump’s actions wouldn’t prompt the companies to back away from plans to continue expanding their use of clean energy sources....

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Ken Notes: I must admit that I love it when environmental initiatives succeed when they are business, rather than government, driven, and that is what is happening now. We need to promote and thank the companies that are driving this agenda and remind the legislature that if they can`t help they should not hurt the effort!