Article snippet: The Obama administration on Sunday unveiled a tougher climate change rule for power plants, demanding that generators cut their carbon dioxide output 32 percent in the first-ever limits on the pollutant. Obama will hold an event Monday afternoon at the White House to announce the regulation, the White House said. The EPA is asking states to formulate plans to reach specific carbon reduction goals assigned to them by 2030, from a 2005 starting point, adding up to a 32 percent reduction nationwide. If the states do not submit plans — as multiple conservative states have threatened — the EPA will write and impose its own strategies upon them. "In doing this, the president will take the single biggest step that any president has made to curb the carbon pollution that is fueling climate change," top Obama adviser Brian Deese told reporters Sunday. "We already limit smog and soot pollution, as well as toxics like mercury, from our power plants. But before this rule, there were no limits on carbon," said EPA Administrator MORE (R-Ky.) has made it a priority to fight the EPA’s main climate rule and has tried to do so with limited success through legislation, appropriations and publicly urging all of the nation’s governors to ignore it. He sees it as an imperative to save coal, on which Kentucky’s economy is dependent. “I can assure you, I will not stand idly by while this administration tries to wipe out the lifeblood of our state’s economy,” McConnell wrote recently in... Link to the full article to read more
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