(Source: Heidi Heitkamp) WASHINGTON, D.C. - A bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) to stop the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan regulations for existing power sources passed today in the U.S. Senate. Heitkamp also voted with a bipartisan majority of the Senate to pass a resolution disapproving of the Clean Power Plan regulations for new power plants. Heitkamp continues to have concerns about the Clean Power Plan's impact on coal-fired power plants, which generate about one-third of the country's electricity and about 80 percent of North Dakota's electricity. Coal supports 13,000 jobs in North Dakota,...
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