SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s new plan to cut pollution discharged by America’s power plants will likely raise electricity rates for consumers and cost the state jobs.

He said the state is in good shape to make the transition from coal-powered plants to natural gas because the state has been taking steps in that direction for the past nine years, but he acknowledged that the new regulations aimed at reducing pollution blamed for global warming could hurt Utah.