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EPA Acting Administrator Talks About Energy Rule During Central Kentucky Visit

Stu Johnson

The acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator says the Trump administration’s proposed clean energy rule won’t adversely affect air quality.  

Andrew Wheeler made his remarks during a stop in Winchester this afternoon with Congressman Andy Barr.  Wheeler says the new plan doesn’t pick energy provider winners and losers, something he contends the Obama administration’s clean power plan did. “President Trump asked us last year to take a look at the clean power plan, to revise it, repeal it, replace it.  And that’s what we did this week with a plan that defers more to the states and works more cooperatively with the states,” said Wheeler.

Wheeler says adoption of this rule would not lead more air pollution.  He says air quality in the U.S. continues to improve each year.  Wheeler says the energy regulation would not reduce C-O-two levels as quickly as the clean power plan offered during the Obama administration.

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