EPA proposes bold plan to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants
Coal industry angry, public health experts happy
The EPA today unveiled a plan to reduce carbon pollution from power plants by 30 percent over the next 15 years – a move which is sure to meet with stiff opposition from the coal industry.
Coal-fired power plants account for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. While there are limits in place for the level of arsenic, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particle pollution that power plants can emit, there are currently no national limits on carbon pollution levels.