NMA APPLAUDS ACTION TO SAFEGUARD THE NATION’S POWER GRID

The National Mining Association (NMA) today issued the following comment from Rich Nolan, president and CEO, on the Environmental Protection Agency's action to reconsider the Biden-era Clean Power Plant 2.0 rule:

"The reliability alarms are blaring as power demand growth from AI and data centers is colliding with eroding generation; until now, our energy policy has turned a blind eye to that reality. Everyone from the authorities charged with keeping the lights on to the manufacturers driving our economy have been pleading for a stop to the closures of well-operating plants. When the experts-from FERC to NERC and even the RTOs-tell us we're teetering on the edge of failure, we must believe them. Urgent and decisive action to stop a rule that was specifically designed to target and prematurely close well-operating coal power plants is not only appropriate, it's necessary and long overdue."

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