Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Trump Administration’s latest regulatory rollback for coal-fired power plants will benefit Kentucky families — despite the government’s own analysis showing it will have little to no impact. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency moved forward with plans to raise the limits on the amount of carbon dioxide new and reconstructed coal-fired power plants can emit. The EPA’s rollback will change Obama-era restrictions so that new coal plants can emit an extra 500 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour. The rollback is part of a larger push by Trump’s EPA to replace Obama’s Clean Power Plan , which aimed to curb emissions to combat climate change. Last Thursday, McConnell stood on the floor of the Senate and praised the Trump Administration for rolling back pollution standards. “On behalf of coal families throughout Kentucky, I applaud the Trump Administration. This runaway regulation needs to be rolled back and replaced with a more reasonable and achievable set of standards,” McConnell said . “Coal deserves a level playing field and that’s what this White House is trying to accomplish.” The EPA’s own analysis however, concludes the rule won’t have any impact because it doesn’t anticipate any new coal-fired power plants will be built, and few “if any” coal plants will be reconstructed. Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet confirmed there are no plans for new coal-fired p
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