The Environmental Protection Agency’s restrictions on new coal and natural gas power plants meant to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change would be a disaster for Western Maryland’s coal mining business, industry representatives said.
The new regulations, announced Friday by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, would allow new coal-powered plants to emit up to 1,100 pounds of carbon per megawatt-hour. Natural gas plants would be allowed to emit between 1,000 and 1,100 pounds of carbon per megawatt-hour, depending on their size
“They’ll have a devastating effect on us because they want to eliminate the coal-powered plants, and all of their actions will do just that,” said Adrienne Ottaviani, the executive director of the Maryland Coal Association. “It will be probably more of the coal companies in Maryland closing their doors. They just can’t continue with the regulations being placed upon them.”
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just another Libtard move to put good working Americans out of a job .
ReplyDeleteEPA and all the enviromental agencies here have already killed Maryland business.
ReplyDeleteKill the EPA!
ReplyDeleteThis governor ahs done nothing to protect Marylanders from such atrocities. He should be tarred and feathered and shipped to the white house to join the rest of his communists comrades!
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