NRDC Fights Back as EPA Starts Trump’s Climate Rollbacks
Immediately after President Trump signed Tuesday’s Executive Order , EPA Administrator Pruitt issued notices starting the process of rolling back the carbon...
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Power Companies Respond Positively to EPA's Final Carbon Pollution Standards
This blog was co-authored with Montina Cole This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a historic plan to reduce carbon pollution from...
Clean Power Plan: Reasonable, Achievable State Targets for Cutting Power Plant Pollution
The historic Clean Power Plan finalized this week to limit carbon pollution from power plants allows each state to design its own cost-effective pathway toward...
Dozens of Power Providers Constructively Engaged on EPA Clean Power Plan Proposal
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from the nation's existing power plants, and has received an...
New Poll: Maine Residents Support Clean Energy, EPA Plan to Cut Power Plant Pollution
Solar panels at Mt. Abram ski area (courtesy Maine Office of Tourism) Maine residents overwhelming support limits on dangerous emissions from power plants and...
The Clean Power Plan: NRDC's Initial Analysis of EPA's Landmark Proposal to Curb Carbon Pollution from the Nation's Power Plants
On June 2nd, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the nation’s first limits on carbon pollution from the nation’s fleet of more than 1600 fossil fueled...