Washington plans to sue Trump Administration over Clean Power Plan rollback
The Trump administration rolled out its plan to rescue America's coal plants on Tuesday, as cities in the Northwest and elsewhere on the West Coast were breathing unhealthy air from the region's latest summer outbreak of wildfires.
And now Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Gov. Jay Inslee are announcing plans to challenge the rollback in court. "It's an affront to people who want to breathe clean air," Inslee told a Wednesday news conference.
The plan would allow states to set emission standards, easing regulation to keep aging coal plants in operation. It reverses the Clean Power Plan of the Obama administration, which was aimed at speeding closure of old, polluting power plants.
The reaction from fire-plagued states of the West was fiery.
"On behalf of our state, our environment and Washingtonians concerned about the impacts of global climate change, we will challenge this unlawful action in court," Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement earlier this week.
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