More Ambitious Emission Reductions Needed to Ward Off Warming Crisis
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. New rules unveiled today by President Barack Obama don’t do enough to cut planet-warming pollution from America’s power plants. Using the Clean Air Act, the president aims to reduce existing power plant emissions 30 percent below 2005 levels (or about 7.7 percent below 1990 levels, the base year for the international climate treaty) by 2030.
But international scientists warned years ago that…
