It is a smokescreen. It is intended to screen off the lungs of the children in America from the smoke coming out of these polluting utilities.
The issue here is not that it is difficult to do; the issue here is that some States have not even tried.
We are not going to do anything more important in 2 years; this is it.
We have heard a lot about job loss in the coal industry which has been a fact for the last 30 to 40 years.
I thank the gentleman from Oregon for making this very important amendment.
The Clean Power Plan reduces SO2, sulfur, by 90 percent between now and 2030.
It also reduces nitrogen oxide by 72 percent.
Economics 101 moves utilities toward natural gas.
The war on coal is natural gas.
My amendment says this bill cannot go into effect until the EPA and the Department of Energy determine how many jobs wil...
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