The analysis also finds that, among the senators who voted in favor of both resolutions to block the CPP, there were 13 who received over $100,000 from the coal industry over the six-year period. In this case, however, the money would have been better spent elsewhere. President Obama has threatened to veto the resolutions, and the EPA has a long history of prevailing against opposition to regulations enforced under the Clean Air Act.
“There is a history of us moving forward under the Clean Air Act, and there is a history of us winning time and time again,”
said EPA administrator Gina McCarthy. “We are not seeing our large initiatives go down because a Republican has gone into the presidency, or because Congress has decided to to take it up.”