"The nation gets its chance this week to blast or praise the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping plan to cut climate-warming emissions by 2030.

Companies, environmental advocates and citizens will sound off at EPA hearings starting tomorrow in Atlanta, Denver and Washington about the 645-page proposal, unveiled two months ago, to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants. A two-day hearing in Pittsburgh starts July 31. The agency says more than 1,600 people are scheduled to speak and by last week all slots were filled in Atlanta, Denver and Washington.

About 300,000 comments already have been submitted on the power-plant rule, with weeks to go before the deadline. And 683 businesses and nonprofit groups registered to lobby the EPA this year, more than any other federal department, the Center for Responsive Politics reported."

Mark Drajem reports for Bloomberg News July 28, 2014. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Like Or Don’t Like EPA’s Power-Plant Rule? Now’s Your Turn To Tell Them Why" (McClatchy) [3]

"Week Ahead: EPA Heads Into Battle on Climate Rule" (The Hill) [4]

"McConnell Plans To Take Coal Country Message To EPA Listening Session in D.C." (E&E Daily) [5]

"Greens Expect ‘Busloads’ To Support EPA Climate Rule at Hearings" (The Hill) [6]

"Fossil Fuel-Funded Groups Organizing Public Rallies Against New EPA Climate Rule" (Climate Progress) [7]

"EPA Chief Won't Attend Public Hearings on Climate Rule" (The Hill) [8]

"EPA Hearing on Climate Plan Will Draw Big Crowd in Denver" (KDVR Fox 31 Denver) [9]

"EPA Hearings on Climate Rule This Week" (Politico) [10]

"Lawmaker: Coal is Obama’s ‘Kryptonite’" (The Hill) [11]

"Power Outage Forces EPA To Move Climate Hearing" (The Hill) [12]

"GOP Lawmaker Slams Obama for 'War on Coal'" (The Hill) [13]

"Public Citizen Hits Murray Energy on Climate Rule" (The Hill) [14]

"Greenpeace Calls for Halt To Federal Coal Leasing" (The Hill) [15]