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Committee members clash over alleged exemptions that kept 70 coal plants online
Summary
Two committee members sharply disputed whether a special "polluter" email process produced Clean Air Act exemptions that kept roughly 70 coal-fired plants operating and whether those exemptions raised consumer costs; one member cited a $230 million estimate while another disputed the math and said costs are falling nationally.
A committee member (S1) accused officials of creating a special "polluter email address" that functioned as a "drive up window" to secure exemptions from the Clean Air Act, saying that practice helped keep about 70 coal-fired plants online and that "one estimate" attributed roughly $230,000,000 in extra costs to ratepayers in less than a year.
The claim, raised by the committee member identified in the transcript as S1, prompted an immediate challenge from another committee member (S2), who interjected, "Can we talk about math yet?" and later said, "Costs are going down across the country," signaling disagreement about the cost…
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