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1 billion metric tons of carbon pollution will be prevented, thanks to the EPA’s new rules for the coal industry

The new rules are part of the Biden administration’s efforts to eliminate carbon pollution economy-wide by 2050. Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change.

 

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