Sen. Joe Manchin’s mercury (MATS) rule excuse is lame. The rule accomplished nothing except to advance the (mostly illegal) Obama agenda — killing the coal industry & making electricity more expensive. Then again, Manchin never did do anything for coal during the Obama years. Here’s how dumb the MATS rule was.
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