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Republicans are claiming the new climate rules will wreck the economy. Theyre wrong
2014-06-02 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its much anticipated plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the source of about a third of U.S. emissions. It turns out the regulations will be pretty ambitious: a 30 percent decrease in emissions in this sector from 2005 levels by the year 2030 (though some say that is still not enough). Critics are out in force, of course, and their chief tactic seems to be economic alarmism. Earlier this morning, the front...
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