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STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON NAVAJO GENERATING STATION
January 18, 2013
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) issued the following statement on today’s announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its proposed regulations for the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), the largest coal-fired power plant in the West:
“It is disturbing that the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed regulations for the NGS power plant will leave Arizonans vulnerable to higher water and electricity costs. Forcing Arizona’s water and utility companies to spend up to $1 billion on plant upgrades that would negligibly improve visibility makes little economic or environmental sense.
“I will be working with my colleagues in the Arizona Congressional delegation, the NGS owners, and Arizona’s water users to examine EPA’s claims that the proposed rule is ‘flexible’ enough to meet these new requirements.”
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