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On Monday, EPA Director Scott Pruitt announced that he would be putting an end to the Obama-era policy known and the Clean Power Plan. The plan put stiff regulations on new and existing coal-fired power plants which resulted in many being closed down, miners to be let go, energy bills to skyrocket, and put greater strain on the power grid. All in the name of so-called green energy. CBS Evening News was put off by the EPA’s reversal and turned to China for their example for how the U.S. should operate.
“The head of the Environmental Protection Agency declared today the war on coal is over,” announced fill-in Anchor Elaine Quijano. “Scott Pruitt told an audience in Kentucky he plans to repeal an Obama-era rule that limits carbon emissions from power plants that burn coal. China, on the other hand, is doing the opposite.”
CBS Correspondent Ben Tracy was in China touring the vast solar power plants known as “solar farms” there:
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