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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed sweeping new air pollution regulations to reduce carbon emissions from electric generating units at coal- and gas-fired power plants.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said May 11 that the proposed rule would avoid up to 617 million metric tons of total carbon dioxide through 2042, the equivalent of reducing the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles, roughly half the cars in the U.S.