Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I was encouraged to see that the carbon pollution standards for existing power plants have been sent to OMB.

I think, frankly, that is an unfair comment when people make that because the polluting industries have basically got Congress locked down.

We need the EPA to be defending us against the coal plants that are downwind that have dodged regulation for years.

If a State wished to step in, it could engage under these rules to reduce carbon in ways beyond simply what including plants could do.