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States gearing up to oppose Obama’s new rules to check climate change

This undated file photo shows a polar bear in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Associated Press)
This undated file photo shows a polar bear in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Associated Press)

GLOBAL WARMING -- The head-in sand approach to our planet's future -- and the existence of critters such as polar bears and cutthroat trout - is alive and well.

Publication of President Obama's climate regulations prompt lawsuits
The Environmental Protection Agency's regulations that are at the center of President Obama's climate change agenda will publish today in the Federal Register.  The rules set state-by-state goals on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but at least 25 states are ready to file lawsuits challenging the rules.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is introducing resolutions to block the rules, which President Obama will likely veto should they pass.
--New York Times

Publication of Clean Power Plan rules prompts Colorado AG's vow to fight
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman renewed her vows to fight the federal Clean Power Plan. Coffman said Colorado was one of 24 states that will sue to stop the plan, and that more states are considering joining the lawsuit.
--Denver Post

This ultimately may boil down, excuse the pun, to a battle between bass anglers and trout-salmon anglers.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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