After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sent a letter to governors telling them not to comply with new climate change rules from the Environmental Protection agency, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) responded on Wednesday with a short letter calling out McConnell’s climate change denial.
“I disagree. Climate change is real. It’s a threat to humanity. We should be working harder to address it, not rolling back efforts to do so,” Shumlin wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Huffington Post. “I fully support the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan.”
In his letter last week, McConnell told states that the EPA’s rule directing states to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants goes “far beyond its legal authority.”
“This proposed plan is already on shake legal grounds, will be extremely burdensome and costly, and will not seriously address the global environmental concerns that are frequently raised to justify it,” McConnell wrote in the letter.
