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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/politics/epa-to-seek-30-percent-cut-in-carbon-emissions.html?hp&_r=0The New York Times
Obama to Take Action to Slash Coal Pollution
By CORAL DAVENPORT
JUNE 1, 2014
WASHINGTON The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government to fight climate change, a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nations power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to people briefed on the plan who spoke anonymously because they had been asked not to reveal details.
The regulation takes aim at the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, the nations more than 600 coal-fired power plants. If it withstands an expected onslaught of legal and legislative attacks, experts say that it could close hundreds of the plants and also lead, over the course of decades, to systemic changes in the American electricity industry, including transformations in how power is generated and used.
It is also likely to stand as President Obamas last chance to substantially shape domestic policy and as a defining element of his legacy. The president, who failed to push a sweeping climate change bill through Congress in his first term, is now acting on his own by using his executive authority under the 1970 Clean Air Act to issue the regulation.
Under the rule, states will be given a wide menu of policy options to achieve the pollution cuts. Rather than immediately shutting down coal plants, states would be allowed to reduce emissions by making changes across their electricity systems by installing new wind and solar generation or energy-efficiency technology, and by starting or joining state and regional cap and trade programs, in which states agree to cap carbon pollution and buy and sell permits to pollute.... MORE at link posted above.
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Obama to Take Action to Slash Coal Pollution (Original Post)
theHandpuppet
Jun 2014
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Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)1. Very welcome news
Coal is a killer. And clean coal is a myth.
Cha
(297,190 posts)2. Thanks tHp.. thanks Obama!
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)3. I did not read the story.
Was there anything about replacing the jobs that the coal industry provides?
Please do not respond with snark, it's a legitimate question.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)4. No, there wasn't.
I wish there had been and appreciate the fact that you asked.