GOP presidential hopeful Rubio pledges to gut Clean Power Plan, end crude oil export ban

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Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio would lift the ban onrncrude oil exports and block the U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan if he isrnelected president, he announced in a speech in Oklahoma City, Okla.rn“I will stop the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which, if enacted, wouldrnhave a devastating impact on affordable energy and it will do so inrnexchange for little, if any, environmental benefit,” the Florida senatorrnsaid Sept. 2. Rubio promised to reveal his broader energy plan laterrnthis year, which will focus on limiting or blocking federal regulationsrnand promoting private sector innovation. “America’s energy futurernmust be entrusted to our businesses and to our scientists, not to ourrnbureaucrats,” he said.