Obama Rule For Power Plants To Compel Steeper Emissions Cuts

Politics News | The Sacramento Bee & Sacbee.com, Sacramento Bee: Politics
Sun, 08/02/2015 - 1:13pm

Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead Sunday with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states. … Click to Continue »

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