House GOP Unveils Bill to Block Obama’s Climate Change Rules
House Republicans escalated their confrontation with President Barack Obama on climate change Tuesday with the release of government funding legislation that reverses the administration’s new rules to limit coal pollution.
The legislation, released by the House Appropriations subcommittee on interior and environment, is one of 12 appropriations bills to keep the government running when money expires on Sept. 30.
It targets the regulations on coal-fired power plants, proposed last month by the Environmental Protection Agency in an ambitious effort to reduce climate-warming carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030 (compared to 2005 levels).
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