Climate Central: A four-month public comment period on the federal government's plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired electric power plants began this week, allowing anyone to submit feedback through Oct. 16.
Called the Clean Power Plan, the proposal is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to, by 2030, slash CO2 emissions from existing coal-fired and other power plants using fossil fuels by 30 percent below 2005 levels. The plan was published in the Federal Register...