New Scientist: US president Barack Obama's much-heralded attempt to curb carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations is nowhere near enough
Later today, US President Barack Obama will unveil the final version of the centrepiece of his climate legacy: the Clean Power Plan.
It is designed to speed up the retirement of coal-fired power plants - the most carbon-intensive way of generating electricity - and could more than double the rate of their closures by 2040.
In a video preview, Obama called the Clean...