GOP Senator to Keep Blocking EPA Nominees Over Coal Plant (1)

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) has placed a hold on the nomination of David Uhlmann, the Biden administration’s pick to become the next EPA enforcement chief, pending an agency decision on a coal plant in the southwestern corner of the state.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed shortly this week to disapprove of Wyoming’s revised plan to control regional haze at the Jim Bridger Power Plant. According to the agency, the state’s plan would weaken 2014 requirements to install emissions controls at the plant starting this year.

Lummis pledged in a statement to continue blocking the administration’s EPA nominees over the issue. ...