Coalition of 24 states urges Trump to kill Obama's carbon emission plan

[riversedge]

Source: Reuters








U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak during a USA Thank You Tour event at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania © REUTERS/Lucas Jackson U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak during a USA Thank You Tour event at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania

Officials in 24 states have urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to kill the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's strategy to combat climate change and shut down coal-fired power plants.

The coalition requested the incoming Republican government undo the Clean Power Plan enacted by the current Democratic administration. The law was designed to lower carbon emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels.

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The group, headed by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, suggests Congress take action to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from drafting similar regulations in the future.
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Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coalition-of-24-states-urges-trump-to-kill-obamas-carbon-emission-plan/ar-AAlCtHs

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The article does not list the states involved

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. It is as if greedy, ignorant and downright dumb people have political power in some places.

How did that happen. LOL How indeed, look at who was elected president

[yeoman6987]

2. I am really surprised at the number of states. Very close to majority. Stunning.

This is very bad.

[Achilleaze]

3. Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn - Ruskie-Republicans, Inc.

[angrychair]

4. Don't worry

The coming nuclear winter will cool it.

[turbinetree]

5. What a fascist hypocrite, he didn't win the majority of the VOTE, he loss

and in the states that he supposedly won, its a fraud just like him

So in closing FU "Serial Predator" and all of the supporters that come to the "Serial Predator" little get together and the horses you road in on.

He's still a f***ing "Serial Predator" and the "mains stream media and the cable news have "normalized" this "Serial Predator", by not mentioning that he is a "Serial Predator"


And oh, yeah, your dirty polluting mines are still killing your family and the wildlife, ever hear of acid rain dumb s****

[angrychair]

6. States that sent letter

The letter sent to Trump and congressional leaders on Thursday is signed by Republican officials from 22 states and Democrats from the coal-producing states of Kentucky and Missouri.

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/officials-in-24-states-urge-trump-to-kill-obama-carbon-plan/

[Sunlei]

7. unsettling how easily Republicans USE their unfit person, to wreck Americas clean air progress.

next thing we know, it will be 1950 again with 'for profit' prisoners worked to death in corporate mines.

[Cryptoad]

8. we dont need no stinking clean air!

wait until it finally hits them that King Coal is never coming back,and they have wasted all this time adn money. The low cost of LPNG is the culprit not coal burning regulations.