Coal
EPA Regs: Coal’s Loss, Wyoming’s Win?
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It didn’t take long after the Obama administration unveiled new rules Monday regulating carbon emissions from power plants for people to start naming winners and losers. Wyoming, the nation’s largest coal-producing state, and a huge coal consumer, was immediately billed as a loser. But the reality is more complicated than that. Travis Deti has yet to read through all 645 pages of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule, but already knows he doesn’t like it. “We feel it’s bad for Wyoming, and it’s certainly not good for our coal industry,” said Deti.