EPA Officials Visit Craig To Talk About Coal

CRAIG, Colo. (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency officials are visiting northwestern Colorado to learn more about how proposed pollution rules for power plants could affect a region where the economy is tied to coal.

EPA Region 8 Administrator Shaun McGrath is set to speak at a community meeting in Craig Wednesday evening along with the manager of Craig Station, one of the state's largest coal power plants.

Moffat County Commissioner John Kincaid invited the EPA to the county during hearings in Denver in July on the rules. At the time, he said they could devastate the region and turn Craig into "another Detroit, Michigan."

McGrath and other EPA officials are also scheduled to tour the power plant Thursday.

The rules, intended to curb global warming, would cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

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