COMMENT: Again, the personal profit of a few before the welfare of our planet, and by extension, the welfare of our world's human beings.
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SUMMARY: In Wyoming, people care about issues that affect their land and energy resources. A recently announced EPA initiative to cut carbon emissions, the Clean Power Plan, aims to move American electricity generation away from coal -- the economic lifeblood for that state. Special correspondent Leigh Paterson of Inside Energy looks at both sides of the fight.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): The rise in greenhouse gases and temperatures are the reasons why the president has issued new restrictions on coal-fired power plants in this country.
But now that Republicans hold control of Congress, one issue high on their agenda, blocking or delaying the EPA’s plans.
We get a report on how that’s viewed in a key energy-producing state, Wyoming.
It comes from Leigh Paterson of Inside Energy. That’s a public media collaboration on energy issues, working with the NewsHour.
LEIGH PATERSON, Inside Energy: Caring for a few hundred cows during the Wyoming winter is hard work. Subzero temperatures and hurricane-force winds are normal.
Rancher Dave Hamilton say it’s part of the disconnect between people who live off the land and those who regulate the environment.
DAVE HAMILTON, President, Natural Gas Processing Co.: We seem to have people that have never, ever even set foot on — in the state of Wyoming, that don’t understand farming, don’t understand ranching pass rules that affect us all, when, in fact, we all want to keep our land together. I can’t make a living if I destroy my land.
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