Obama’s carbon rules will ‘irreparably injure’ coal industry, miners say

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Washington Times:

Just hours after being released, President Obama’s plan to limit carbon pollution from power plants already is facing a host of potential lawsuits and other challenges from coal industry leaders who say the rules will “irreparably injure” the U.S. mining sector.

 

The National Mining Association on Monday asked the Environmental Protection Agency to delay implementation of the Clean Power Plan, the first set of federal limits on carbon emissions from power plants. The rule calls for a 32 percent reduction in emissions from the power plant sector by 2030, and the majority of those cuts would come from the retirement of coal-fired facilities.