Politics & Government

Poll: Should Georgia Sue EPA Over Power-Plant Emission Rule?

Attorney General Sam Olens said the rule would change the way electricity would be produced in Georgia and raise power bills for consumers and businesses.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule requires Georgia and 26 other states to cap and regulate two major pollutants that come from coal-fired power plants: sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides. The first deadline is Jan. 1. Georgia Power got 67 percent of its electricity from coal in 2010, according to the AJC.

"The EPA has overstepped their authority with a heavy-handed federal takeover of the enforcement of environmental regulations," Attorney General Sam Olens said in a statement Thursday. "More significantly, implementation of this rule will be extremely damaging to our already struggling economy."

The regulations would raise power bills for Northeast Cobb residents.

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The regulations in theory would give us cleaner air.

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