EPA Administrator Signing New Rule that Ends Obama-era Clean Power Plan

That plan was intended to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants

NORTH DAKOTA — North Dakota’s coal industry is getting a boost from the EPA.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says he will sign a new rule that will end the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.

That plan was intended to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Senator John Hoeven said the costly regulations unfairly targeted North Dakota and required a 45 percent reduction in the state’s C-O-2 emissions, well above the national average of 32 percent.

“The past administration was unapologetic,” Pruitt said. “They were using every bit of power, every bit of authority to use the EPA to pick winners and losers in how we generate electricity in this country.”

Pruitt rejected the consensus of scientists that man-made emissions from burning fossil fuels are the primary driver of global climate change.