Wyoming officials are not happy with the federal government’s latest rules involving coal-fired power plants.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules finalized this week will require existing coal-fired plants and new natural gas plants to “control 90% of their carbon pollution” and will make mercury emissions standards stricter. The stated purpose from EPA is to help combat climate change, but Gov. Mark Gordon isn’t buying.
“It is clear the only goal envisioned by these rules released by the Environmental Protection Agency today is the end of coal communities in Wyoming,” Gordon said in a press release. “EPA has weaponized the fear of climate change into a crushing set of rules that will result in an unreliable electric grid, unaffordable electricity, and thousands of lost jobs.”
According to the Energy Information Administration , which is part of the Department of Energy, Wyoming accounts for two-fifths of all domestic coal mined. As a result, […]
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