REUTERS: …Sources familiar with his plans have said [President Barack] Obama is likely to roll out a number of measures on climate policy. They may include a strategy to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, which account for roughly 40 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions…
Federal regulations are still pending on power plants that have yet to be built, after the Environmental Protection Agency missed an April deadline to roll out emissions rules.
However, environmentalists have been pushing Obama’s administration to go after a bigger target and set tighter standards for the roughly 1,400 coal-fired burners that already feed the nation’s electric grid… (more)
