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EPA Moving Forward with Plan to Turn Off Your Lights

Statement

By: Mike Enzi
By: Mike Enzi
Date: Aug. 3, 2015
Issues: Business and Consumers Energy

President Barrack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved forward today with unprecedented rules to regulate new and existing coal power plants, dubbed the "Clean Power Plan". U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., issued the following statement.

"If you can make it too expensive to open a new power plant and prematurely shut down existing plants, you effectively put a stop to coal use in this country," Enzi said. "As coal accounts for nearly 40 percent of the nation's electricity, the consequences for all Americans are real. This president needs to understand real families, real businesses, real communities will be hurt.

"The Obama Administration's push to raise energy prices and cut jobs is unfortunately more successful than much of what this Administration does."

"This rule will be detrimental to every consumer's personal economy. Come next winter people are going to feel it. It's also going to increase costs for manufacturing. This is the wrong course."


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