Obama
Administration to
Propose 30%
Cuts to
Power Plant Carbon Emissions
The
Obama Administration plans to an**unce new draft greenhouse gas
Emissions rules on Monday that would amount to the biggest step to date toward addressing U.S. contributions to manmade global warming, and the most significant new domestic clean air policy since at least 1990
The proposed rule, to be laid out by the E.P.A. administrator at a news event on Monday morning, would seek to cut
Carbon dioxide
Emissions from existing
Power plants by 30% compared to 2005 levels by the year 2030, according to reports from the
Wall Street Journal and
New York Times
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