5 important stories that have nothing to do with Donald Trump Jr.’s emails
Take a break from the news cycle with these overlooked but important stories that are getting lost in the shuffle.
UK to shut down coal-fired power plants by 2025
The UK plans to shut down all its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and replace the energy source largely with natural gas, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd announced Wednesday.
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Will new clean power regulations stand up to challenges?
President Obama laid out new regulations that reset emissions standards for power plants and call for 28 percent of U.S. power to be generated from renewable energy. States, industry groups and politicians pushed back, setting the stage for legal challenges.
Winners and losers in Obama’s new plan to limit greenhouse gas
President Barack Obama is mandating even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected, while granting states more time and broader options to comply.
The Supreme Court ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency in a case on how federal regulators set limits on mercury emitted from power plants, finding that the EPA failed to take economic costs into account. Jeffrey Brown examines the implications…
News Wrap: Congressional negotiators reach two-year budget agreement…
The nuclear crisis in Japan is raising questions in the U.S. about nuclear power.
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