WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. A plan to be announced in coming days would give states broad authority to determine how to restrict carbon dioxide […]
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Save the Clean Power Plan
At this moment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding a public comment period over its decision to repeal the lifesaving Clean Power Plan. The plan provides lifesaving air pollution reductions, including the first federally created limits on carbon pollution from power plants. The Clean Power Plan would reduce carbon pollution and other harmful pollutants […]
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N. Doonan: Support the Clean Power Plan
Just two days after my thermometer read a balmy 33 degrees, a record low was set (Feb. 24), when outdoor temps reached a biting -16 degrees. Considering those extreme temperature fluctuations combined with fierce storms and blizzards walloping the Northeast and dropping record amounts of precipitation — I would say climate change was caught red-handed. […]
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J. Becker: EPA plan continues carbon reductions
I would like to commend President Obama and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan announced last month. It is the most important step the United States has yet taken to ensure the reduction of our carbon footprint. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins should wholeheartedly endorse the plan, as it will protect current and future generations of Mainers […]