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New coal plants must limit carbon pollution under US EPA regulation
2013-09-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: New coal-burning plants will be required to limit the carbon dioxide they release under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys first regulations aimed at curbing climate change by power generators. The EPA issued the draft rules today, meeting a deadline President Barack Obama set out in an address on climate change in June. The rules effectively require coal-fired plants to capture and store a portion of the carbon dioxide they produce, something the industry says is so costly it would preclude...
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