WASHINGTON (WV News) — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., led a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of repealing provisions of the Clean Air Act.

Capito, chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin that was signed by all of the committee’s Republican members endorsing plans to reverse environmental regulations.

In June, the EPA announced two deregulatory proposals. The first would repeal all greenhouse gas emissions standards for the power sector, including emissions rules for new and existing fossil fuel-fired power plants. The second would roll back the 2024 amendments to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, reverting to standards put in place in 2012.

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