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Trump’s EPA takes aim at new swath of Obama-era coal rules

By John Siciliano
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Trump’s EPA takes aim at new swath of Obama-era coal rules

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it will revisit a 2011 air pollution rule that has been blamed for closing dozens of coal-fired power plants around the country.

The Obama-era rule was part of what the utility industry once dubbed the “train wreck,” a group of EPA environmental rules that together required either massive upgrades to power plants, or for companies to shutter them.

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