Kilmartin, AGs back new power-plant rules

PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin, along with 10 other attorneys general and the city of New York, are lobbying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of final rules from the Obama administration that would, for the first time, limit emissions of climate change pollution from existing and new fossil fuel-burning power plants.

According to a statement, the letters said that the attorneys general fully anticipate supporting EPA in defending the rules if they are challenged in court.

The Clean Power Plant rules will control carbon dioxide and other climate change emissions by setting limits on the amount of climate change pollution that can be released from new and existing plants. The rule for existing plants is expected to eliminate as much climate change pollution as is emitted by more than 160 million cars a year.

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