South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, questioned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to regulate carbon emissions at a committee hearing. The proposal, expected to be finalized this summer, would impose costly new regulations on power plants, despite the Administration’s admission that it would do nothing to achieve its intended goal of reducing global warming.

Rounds says the rules could force a major cut in the operating hours of the Big Stone Power plant in north east South Dakota…

 

Rounds said the rules could lead to the closure of the power plant…

 

Janet McCabe, Administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, says they believe states can comply with their clean air rules…

 

A total of 31 states, including South Dakota, are on record opposing the Administration’s Clean Power Plan.