Rockefeller Seeks to Suspend EPA Carbon Regulations
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Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, introduced legislation that suspends for two years U.S. carbon-dioxide regulations for power plants and other industrial polluters.
The bill is aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agency rules that took effect on Jan. 2, Rockefeller said today in an e-mailed statement. Co-sponsors of the EPA Stationary Source Regulations Delay Act include Democratic Senators Jim Webb of Virginia and Claire McCaskill of Missouri.