By Editors of Power Engineering

The Kentucky House voted 65-28 to approve a bill that would lift the state’s decades-long moratorium on nuclear energy, the Associated Press reported.

The bill will go before Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, who previously said he would not veto the bill.

Kentucky Rep. Jim Gooch Jr. decried the bill, saying it’s a “kick in the teeth” to the coal industry.

Previous attempts to end the nuclear moratorium in the state were shot down.