Kasich presses Obama directly to hold back power plant rules

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Washington Examiner:

Republican presidential hopeful Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is going directly to President Obama to stop implementation of the administration's strict emission rules for power plants, which are the linchpin of the president's climate change agenda.

 

Kasich sent a letter to the president at the end of last month. It was disclosed by Ohio officials at a hearing in the House Science, Space and Technology Committee Friday on the Environmental Protection Agency's emission rules that were finalized Aug. 3, called the Clean Power Plan.

 

"I am asking you to suspend implementation of the final rule until all legal appeals are resolved," Kasich wrote. Ohio is part of a group of 15 states that asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last month to stay the rule, which it denied Wednesday. The states plan to file a new lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan once it is made final by being published in the Federal Register, which won't occur for months, according to the EPA and Justice Department.