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US Supreme Court limits ways to curb emissions

Friday 1 Jul 22 11:15am

FOR two decades, Congress has failed to pass standalone climate change legislation.

That left the Obama White House to rely on the 1970 Clean Air Act in order to craft regulations that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, currently the second most carbon-polluting sector in the country.

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