Georgia Power asked state regulators for permission to shut down 15 power plants yesterday, claiming new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) make the plants too expensive to run.

The 15 coal-, oil- and natural gas-fired power plants currently produce 2,061 megawatts (MW) for Georgia energy consumers. Georgia Power plans to close 11 of the plants on the exact day the EPA’s new mercury regulations are set to take effect, April 16, 2015. Georgia Power will seek waivers from the EPA to keep four of the other plants open for a single year, and then shut those down too on April 16, 2016. It is unclear how the Georgia energy sector will make the 2 gigawatts up.

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Barack Obama is an evil man.

It's going to get interesting watching this unfold.

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It's going to get interesting watching this unfold.

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My mother always would say that we are two generations from being a pagan country. She was referring to passing the faith on but it works the same for other areas. Too many parents aren't raising model citizens.