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Fact-checking Obama’s rules on carbon and coal plants
Posted by PolitiFact: Steve Contorno on August 16th, 2014
PolitiFact: President Barack Obama’s second-term promise to tackle climate change has clashed with election-year politics. Much of the political debate has focused on the Environmental Protection Agency’s newly proposed regulations on existing power plants. If enacted, the rules would curb carbon emissions that scientists say cause global warming. Misinformation about these new regulations started even before the EPA released them. In the days leading up to the EPA’s June 2 announcement, the U.S. Chamber...