The Environmental Protection Agency is officially proposing the first-ever regulations limiting future power plants' greenhouse gas emissions, including standards that will require coal-burning plants to capture about 40 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions. The proposed rule, which EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is announcing this morning in a speech at the National Press Club, is the agency's first step in fulfilling President Barack Obama's promise to tackle climate change without waiting for Congress. Republican lawmakers and other coal industry supporters have already denounced the proposal, saying it's part of an administration "war on coal."
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