ThinkProgress: On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency will release a first-ever set of regulations to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the country`s existing fleet of power plants. The agency recently issued similar rules for new power plants, which will be finalized next year after a public comment period. The rules for existing plants will undergo a similar process.
But before the political storm around the rules begins in earnest, here are the basic points everyone needs to know about why EPA`s carbon...