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If there has been a war on coal, Obama’s Clean Power Plan was never the main front
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Scott Tong
Oct 10, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency has started the process to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era measure to reduce emissions from power plants. In his announcement, Scott Pruitt characterized the repeal as an end to a “war on coal.” But in the real world of energy markets, not a whole lot is expected to change. […]
The Clean Power Plan is a zombie that will be hard to kill
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Scott Tong
Oct 3, 2017
The Obama-era regulation known as the Clean Power Plan is expected to be the next target for the White House to cut back regulations. It’s something of a zombie, since the Supreme Court halted its rollout, yet the EPA is required to take measures to regulate carbon pollution (due to an agency finding that greenhouse […]
The cost of cleaner power
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Janet Nguyen
Dec 14, 2015
The climate agreement in Paris on Saturday was a sign of global solidarity, but back in the U.S., conflict over curbing pollution still remains.
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Big coal gets its day in court against the EPA
Apr 16, 2015
A federal court in Washington hears a challenge to the EPA's Clean Power Plan.