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Thursday, September 27, 2012

House Passes Legislative “Stop the War on Coal Act” Package, Takes Aim at Carbon, Coal Ash Rules

House Passes Legislative “Stop the War on Coal Act” Package, Takes Aim at Carbon, Coal Ash Rules



In its last legislative act before the November election, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed by a vote of 233 to 175 the controversial "Stop the War on Coal Act," a legislative package of measures that seeks to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from promulgating carbon emission rules, calls for an analysis of the cumulative economic impacts of certain environmental rules, and would create a state-based program to regulate coal ash. Read More »http://www.powermag.com/POWERnews/5003.html?hq_e=el&hq_m=2530880&hq_l=4&hq_v=30108e0773

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