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Clean Power Plan rules spark 2016 campaign fight over climate change

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Hilary Clinton says if elected, she would defend Clean Power Plan if elected WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan is thrusting the divisive debate over climate change into the race for the White House, with candidates in both parties seeing an opportunity to capitalize. To Democrats, rallying around global climate change is a way to energize […]

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Clean Power Plan shifts states’ emission reduction targets

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Clean Power Plan to reduce emissions 32 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 HELENA, Mont. – Sixteen states will have tougher carbon dioxide reduction targets than they originally planned now that President Barack Obama has presented his final plan to cut emissions from U.S. power plants. Obama’s plan, which would reduce emissions 32 per cent below 2005

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Clean Power Plan winners and losers

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Clean Power Plan relies heavily on renewable energy sources WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is mandating even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected, while granting states more time and broader options to comply. The tweaks to Obama’s unprecedented emissions limits on power plants, to be unveiled at the White House on Monday, aim to address

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Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

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Utilities switching away from coal to natural gas Alpha Natural Resources is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the fourth big coal producer to do so within the last two years. The company operates about 60 coal mines throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Wyoming. Coal prices have plunged in recent years as utilities

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Hydropower – Northeast desperately needs energy, eco-activists try to block Canadian imports

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New Englanders will pay a tops-in-the-nation 20.2 cents per kilowatt-hour in Q3 of this year. Canadian hydropower could lower rates. As President Obama prepares to close coal power plants across the country with the Clean Power Plan, New England environmentalists oppose importing more Canadian clean hydropower. Plenty of raw electricity sloshes around in Quebec’s rivers and reservoirs,

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HitchBOT the hitch hiking robot dies on the mean streets of Philadelphia

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HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot that captured the hearts of fans worldwide, met its demise in the U.S. The Canadian researchers who created HitchBOT as a social experiment told The Associated Press that someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair early Saturday, ending its first American tour after about two weeks. “Sadly, sadly it’s come to

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Clean Power Plan: Mandated carbon cuts to be steeper than expected

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EPA will unveil Clean Power Plan Monday, year after President Obama proposed steep GHG cuts President Barack Obama and his Clean Power Plan will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday. The President called the Clean Power Plan the most significant step

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