How new emissions restrictions affect Nevada

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The Obama administration is laying out plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030 to reduce global warming. States must come up with plans to meet their individualized targets, which will vary across the nation. States will have until 2017 and in some cases 2018 to submit their cleanup plans. Here’s how the plan affects Nevada:

—Nevada’s emissions from electrical power plants would be sliced more than 34 percent by 2030 under goals set Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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