In Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky, a Bipartisan Effort to Kick the Coal Habit
The Obama administration’s proposed new rules regulating carbon emissions at power plants are getting rough treatment by politicians of both stripes in the coal state of Kentucky. Coal provides the state with more than 90 percent of its electrical power - and with a competitive edge from low utility rates.
Allison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat challenging Republican Mitch McConnell for his seat in the US Senate, launched a pricey ad campaign in Kentucky coal country this week: “President Obama and Washington don’t get it… Alison Grimes does.”
Senator McConnell likened the proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations to “a dagger in the heart of the American middle class,” and introduced legislation Tuesday that would require federal officials to “certify” that the rules not negatively impact jobs,
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