WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Scott Pruitt, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said on Monday that he will on Tuesday formally announce a repeal of the Clean Power Plan, a signature effort by former U.S. President Barack Obama to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
"The war on coal is over," Pruitt said in a televised speech at an event in the U.S. coal state of Kentucky. "Tomorrow in Washington D.C., I'll be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean Power Plan of the past administration and thus begin the effort to withdraw that rule."
Pruitt claimed that the Obama administration was "using every bit of power, every bit of authority to use the EPA to pick winners and losers in how we generate electricity in this country. And that's wrong."
A copy of the leaked proposal obtained by U.S. media showed that Pruitt will scrap the plan citing reasons that it "exceeds the EPA's statutory authority."
"The EPA welcomes comment on the legal interpretation addressed in this proposed rulemaking," wrote the leaked proposal.
Gina McCarthy, the EPA administrator under Obama who released the Clean Power Plan, said in a statement that a proposal to repeal it "without any timeline or even a commitment to propose a rule to reduce carbon pollution, isn't a step forward."
"It's a wholesale retreat from EPA's legal, scientific and moral obligation to address the threats of climate change," McCarthy said.
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