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EPA claims new power plant emission regs offer lifeline to coal
2013-09-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Two days before Gina McCarthy [3], the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, presented her landmark proposal to regulate carbon emissions from future electric plants, one of her main allies in Congress walked her down memory lane. Rep. Henry Waxman [4] reminded her that he once tried to help the coal industry pay for costly technology to capture carbon dioxide from power plants and pump it deep underground. "In 2009, the president supported market-based legislation to make major...
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EPA Claims New Power Plant Emission Regs Offer Lifeline to Coal
2013-09-23 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Two days before Gina McCarthy [3], the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, presented her landmark proposal to regulate carbon emissions from future electric plants, one of her main allies in Congress walked her down memory lane. Rep. Henry Waxman [4] reminded her that he once tried to help the coal industry pay for costly technology to capture carbon dioxide from power plants and pump it deep underground. "In 2009, the president supported market-based legislation to make major...
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EPA sets out revised carbon emission rules for power plants
2013-09-23 09:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Advocates for the coal and utilities industries criticised new proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency to curb carbon emissions from newly-constructed power plants on Friday. The rules, based on the US Clean Air Act, have been made to support the Climate Action Plan announced by President Obama in July. In making this proposal, the EPA backed down on an original proposal made last year, which applied identical limits to gas and coal-fired plants. That rule may have been subject to a legal...
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Obama moves to cut pollution with carbon emission edict
2013-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: Environmentalists applauded the Obama administrations move Friday requiring new power plants to cut carbon pollution, but some business groups warned the action could push consumer prices higher and make U.S. manufacturers less competitive. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first standards that cut carbon pollution emissions from future coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. The federal agency also said Friday it will work with utilities, businesses, environmental groups...
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EPA proposes CO2 emission standards for new fossil fuel-fired power plants
2013-09-20 16:30:20| Green Car Congress
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