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Clean Power Plan: Barack Obama Ignites War on Coal to Hit Climate Change Targets

3rd August 2015

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When coal was king, it fuelled the generation of more than half of America’s electricity. And US presidential hopefuls paid homage to coal, courting mine owners and miners.

Barack Obama was no exception. As a state legislator in 2004 and again as a US senator, he supported proposals for huge federal subsidies to turn coal into motor fuel and ease America’s reliance on oil imports.

All of that has changed. Today, the Obama administration takes on the coal industry with the final version of rules it has dubbed the Clean Power Plan, a complex scheme designed to reduce, on a state-by-state basis, the amount of greenhouse gases the nation’s electric power sector emits. The main target? Coal.

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One Response to “Clean Power Plan: Barack Obama Ignites War on Coal to Hit Climate Change Targets”

  1. Elganned Says:
    August 3rd, 2015 at 10:44

    Times have changed. Besides, coal is a dying industry; they’ve blown the top off of every mountain in West Virginia and Kentucky already.

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