President Obama’s grand plan to regulate coal out of existence started to come apart Monday. His Environmental Protection Agency had announced in 2011 that it would regulate oil and coal power plants under an obscure Clean Air Act program that has nothing to do with carbon, smog or common air pollution, but with poisons in tiny quantities, such as mercury and arsenic.

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