The upcoming fight between the environmental protection agency and congress in on the usage of coal and is known as “War on Coal”. The environmental protection agency has funded many ads which support the President Obama’s vision of limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal fired power plants. The ad campaign will target five states New Hampshire, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Washington D.C. According to environmental protection agency the congress has to decide if they are in favor of applying limits on highest carbon emitting sources or they prefer not to impose limits. The coal industry is urging President Obama’s administration to ease carbon dioxide limits for coal plants. The coal industry also state the fact that they have invested a huge amount on pollution control and if the environmental protection agency forces t to close the coal fired power plant they will lose a large revenue. Also President Obama announced that we will use his executive authority to address global warming and his plan involves limiting the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The environmental protection agency previously proposed emissions limits that would effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants unless they used carbon capture technology, which is not commercially viable. According to the American coalition for clean coal electricity, more than 280 coal fired power plants will shut down due to environmental protection agency regulations.
The Obama administration should do voting before it declares a war on coal. The environmental protection agency will issue the emission caps that will ban the construction of new power plants in United States. This step also threatens the source of 40 percent of America’s electricity generation it also endangers jobs in the coal producing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. The environmental protection agency says that these steps are necessary to fight against global