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In a first, the US will restrict existing coal-fired plants’ emissions

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billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047 – equivalent to preventing the annual emissions of 328 million gasoline cars or nearly an entire year of US electric power sector emissions. The stronger clean air and climate protections will save lives.” If a coal plant retires by 2032, it’s exempt from the new final rule.

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