Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Daily
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The Clean Power Plan: The Most Important Step America Has Ever Taken in the Fight Against Global Warming
The Clean Power Plan is a set of regulations aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. The Obama administration and the lawyers he had working for him worked for several years to try to legally bulletproof this regulation. If those regulations were to be fully implemented, they would probably lead to the shutdown of hundreds of coal plants across the country. It's an EPA rule in what Donald Trump once Scott Pruitt to do is to start the legal process of unwinding it and making it go away.
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