While coal and
electric utility industry officials and their supporters in Congress charge the president with fighting a «war on coal» that will cost coal states jobs and raise electric rates, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy defended the proposed rules as affordable and reasonable.
Not exact matches
Scientists had begun to warn
electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the
industry's
official research and development organization had acknowledged that, «There is growing consensus in the scientific community that the greenhouse effect is real.»
Scientists had begun to warn
electric utilities about climate change by 1968, and by 1988 the
industry's
official research and development organization had
The EPA spoke of the health and other benefits of reining in climate change through reduced C02 emissions, while
utility industry officials decry a «war on coal» that will cost jobs and raise
electric rates.
In meetings this week with State Department
officials, lobbyists for the coal
industry,
electric utilities, and automakers joined ExxonMobil's call to replace Watson.