Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon this week signed an emergency order keeping part of a coal-fired power plant open, shredding the federal Environmental Protection Agency in the process.
The Jim Bridger power plant’s Unit 2 was scheduled to close Jan. 1 after the EPA declared it violated environmental standards, but Gordon has ordered the plant to keep burning coal for another four months, pointing out the Biden-controlled EPA refuses to honor a plan approved under the Trump administration.
“In a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, Gordon said his order is necessary because of the agency’s ‘failure to act’ on a revised State Implementation Plan (SIP) that was submitted by the state,” The Washington Examiner reports.
“The governor’s office alleges the revised SIP was approved in 2020 to allow the unit to continue operating while still meeting regional haze guidelines, but the EPA later ‘reversed course and refused to honor the prior approval,’” the Examiner reports.
“The Clean Air Act gives the Governor authority to issue this temporary suspension order to keep Unit 2 operating and prevent job losses that would occur at the plant and the mine,” Gordon’s office points out.s
“I cannot let DC’s failure put Wyoming folks out of work and lead to a loss of energy availability for Wyoming consumers from a coal fired unit,” said Gordon. “We had a deal. PacifiCorp, EPA and Wyoming all agreed in 2020 that the regional haze guidelines would not only be met, but exceeded with the revised SIP.”
“Now, with that deal unilaterally abandoned by EPA, this emergency order is necessary to protect Wyoming workers from EPA’s recklessness,” said Gordon.
In a November statement, Gordon slammed the Biden administration for a scheme that “needlessly and recklessly imperils the employment of many Wyoming workers, threatens electricity consumers with increased energy costs, threatens to undermine the reliability of the nation’s electricity grid, undermines the integrity of the regional haze program and EPA itself.”
Gordon pointed out Biden’s reversal “damages our cooperative relationship, and actually does greater harm to the environment — and for what, shallow talking points on the international stage?”
Michael Brigham
Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
What, the fake Biden administration is trampling on states rights? Say it ain’t so! Obvious sarcasm in case you didn’t get it.
Close down the EPA in 2023. Vote Republican in 2022. Wonder why everything is made in china when the EPA drove American energy and manufacturing out of business? The EPA bows to china!
Just look at the American companies that are in China now. And they have built 3 new coal burning power plants in the last 5 year! And the EPA, says SHUT YOUR POWER PLANT DOWN,
Always wrong, lying, Democrat, senile Joe Biden spent 50 years in Congress and learned nothing!
Foxtrot Juliet Bravi
Bravo
F J Bidet!
Love George Baker
# FJB!
The Governor of Wyoming has every right to do just what he did and he’s 100% correct! Tell that Feds to shove it straight where the sun doesn’t shine. The Green New Deal is a bunch of bison bs anyway. The Governor is doing what’s right for the people of his state. Stand tough Governor Gordon and tell the EPA and Biden to go force that crap on Vermont or California or Massachusetts but leave Wyoming the hell alone!
I like your statement AUtiger as it tells them where to stick it and the Governor has the BALLS we need more to have and stand up.
One minor correction: shove it far enough up there so that Xiden can wear it for earrings.
Looks like a great move by Gordan. Many more need to stand up to the enviromental tyranny from DC. Where is the outrage over the idiocy of labelling CO2 a toxic gas? Yeah that was Obummer that said that. No CO2=NO plNts or oxygen for is to breath. Of course much of MSM is silent. Just saying
When is Trump going too get off the vaccine BS!
What? Stay on topic David.
Good boy, Gordon. We all know that the EPA doesn’t have the assault troops to enforce its jackass fiats.
Well not yet anyway, they first got to get the IRS Storm Troopers funded, once that’s done the Democrats will introduce a Bill to fund EPA Shock Troopers
Way to go Governor!!!
Green New Deal, Mean New Steal.
Finally! Someone with balls!
Need Thorium Reactors too
We need 50 Governors like this!!! They have an agreement and the EPA wants to unilaterally cancel it? Time to start closing Federal agencies…
The EPA should not even exist. Where in the 10th Amendment are the exception clauses for environmental issues?
Way to do it.Nothing wrong burning coal if all haze guide lines are met. This is nonsense shutting down coal plants if all guide lines are being met. Go and see the haze in countries like China, India, Pakistan etc.
Haze ? we get that from Mexico down in Texas,…. Crossing from N.M. into El Piso, you can actually SEE it blowing across
Fist even though pedo, corrupt,and mentally impaired (since birth) is not running the country (this dose not relieve him of his cupability in all the crimes against the consitution and the US he has leaad and implemented). He is a reaally bad puppet and the super rich, like soros (who is a nazi and got all his training from hillier , gates, bloomberg, the list goes on) are trying to take control of the US and then the world. These people don’t care about you. They want control and you will be mere worthless spots on the ground when they get control. People that have been indoctrinated, that think they are privileged, that in short have never been taught any values and responsibility and ar eplain stupid are being useed to get the ends theae super rich want and they don’t even know it. we will see the resolve of the people that can see through this “dog and pony show” these parties are putting on we may win but right now this division is killing us.
Governor Gordon is a hero.
Where are all the other governors and lazy senators?
FANTASTIC, I LOVE when people fight back…F the epa and FJB
get rid of epa, they have outlived their usefulness
States need to do there own thing.
Federal government is a disaster
Good for the Governor ! About time someone stood up to Biden’s foolish changes to President Trumps deals. Biden doesn’t care about the people so it’s up to the Governor to take care of them! Good Luck!