EPA coal outreach ignores key regions

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October 31, 2013
MJ Clark
 
On Sept. 30, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of 11 public listening sessions on "the best Clean Air Act approaches to reducing carbon pollution from existing power plants." The feedback from these meetings will "play an important role in helping EPA develop smart, cost effective guidelines."
 
Yesterday, the EPA was hosting a listening session in Denver; so Wyoming sent representatives from the Mining Association, rural electric coops, and from the coal mines to give the EPA an earful. Although the morning sessions seemed to be running 2:1 against the strict regulations, many felt that the exercise was futile and that the EPA has already made its mind up that coal is a dead-end fuel.
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The Institute for 21st Century Energy, along with multiple state Chambers of Commerce, has sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to protest the current selection of listening session locations, and to urge the EPA to include states that are more dependent on coal.
 
Read the full article at Wyoming Business Report.