The Trump administration on Thursday proposed freeing a Wyoming coal plant from a 12-year-old agreement to shut down by the end of 2027.
EPA’s proposal — part of a swath of investments and other actions supporting the coal sector announced in the Oval Office — also won’t require the plant to install the pollution controls it avoided by agreeing to close the plant in 2027.
“The Obama administration had one goal, to kill coal and lecture coal miners that their only option was to learn to code,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement. “If finalized, EPA’s proposal would save the plant, maintain regional haze requirements, and ensure Wyoming’s economy can boom.”
At issue is a 2014 federal plan covering Wyoming under the regional haze rule, which aims to reduce pollution that harms visibility in national parks and wilderness areas.
