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Challenges Await Plan to Reduce Emissions
2013-09-21 04:36:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration's potentially pathbreaking proposal for carbon emission limits on new power plants will face political and legal challenges from opponents who argue that the technology needed has not been close to being proven as the law requires. The draft rule was announced on Friday at the National Press Club by Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. But to protect industries from pie-in-the-sky requirements, current law limits what rules the agency...
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