Kansas sued the EPA yesterday to block the agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR).
The Kansas Attorney General said that the regulations will require Kansas utilities to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in new emissions control equipment by Jan. 1, and that it will be impossible for utilities to comply — and that means either Kansans will be paying higher rates or there won’t be enough electricity to meet Kansas demand.
But what does EPA care when it can abuse its Clean Air Act authority in lieu of cap-and-trade to wreck the coal industry?
Read the Associated Press story.
For more on the CSAPR and the EPA’s overreach on air quality, check out:
- EPA’s Clean Air Act: Pretending air pollution is worse than it is
- Show us the bodies, EPA
- American Lung Association says ‘more will die’ but refuse to provide proof
- EPA’s air-quality overkill
- Air pollution scare debunked
- PM2.5 not linked with cardiac emergencies
- Valberg challenges EPA air quality science in House hearing
- EPA shows us a body?
- Does air pollution cause cardio-respiratory problems in infants?
- EPA’s desperate new smog scare
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