“The Obama administration's EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants is a direct affront to workers in states like Alabama, which not only rely upon coal-fired plants to generate most of their electricity but are also home to thousands of coal industry jobs.”

American lawyer and politician

Luther Johnson Strange III is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2017 to 2018. He was appointed to the seat after Jeff Sessions left it to become U.S. attorney general. Strange’s public career is centered on law and politics, and his Senate tenure was brief but high-profile because of the appointment process that brought him there. He is associated with Alabama political life and with the period in which the state’s Senate seat changed hands after Sessions’s confirmation.