EPA takes first step toward replacing Obama’s climate rules for coal plants

Published December 18, 2017 9:59pm ET



President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency took the first step Monday toward proposing its own version of climate change regulations for coal-fired power plants.

The Trump climate rule would replace the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan with a much more limited version of the greenhouse gas rules for existing power plants.

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