Speaking with CNN’s John Sutter, Obama EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy warns America’s utility industry not to invest in coal-fired power plants because the next Administration after Donald Trump’s will shut them down: “They are not going to go backwards… You’ll be asking them to invest in facilities that they know the next Administration would never allow to continue.”
EPA ADMINISTRATOR GINA MCCARTHY: “I know how the utility industry has already planned, not just because of the Clean Power Plan, but because of the shift to clean energy. They are not going to go backwards, cause you’ll be asking them to actually increase energy prices. You’ll be asking them to invest in facilities that they know the next Administration would never allow to continue. Because the longer we go, the more you’re actually going to need to have continued reductions more and more and that’s the challenge. So, the utilities won’t change.”
CNN Politics with John Sutter
December 3, 2016
