U.S. Green Groups See Need To Nudge Obama's 'opening Bid' On Carbon Cuts

Key Republicans and many industrial groups decried President Barack Obama's signature effort to c...  More »

Key Republicans and many industrial groups decried President Barack Obama's signature effort to cut power plant carbon emissions as a job-killing war on coal that would drive up power prices; environmentalists and many Democrats hailed it as a landmark measure making good on Obama's pledge to tackle climate change. For both sides of the debate, Monday's sweeping proposal by the EnvironmentalProtection Agency is only the starting point of a months-long effort to work out the details of a 645-page plan that may remake the nation's power sector.

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