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The Clean Power Plan establishes a Clean Energy Incentive Program, which will be proposed today and allows for renewable energy and low-income energy efficiency to earn additional credits, as an incentive for states to include these measures in their compliance plans. While the...

That’s what Fox News’ Chris Stirewalt wondered Monday, before concluding that Clinton – like some GOP establishment candidates for president in the current cycle – can’t completely abandon her lip service to the ideals of her party’s most...

Thirty-one states’ targets were loosened, but the tougher goals for the others make the overall plan more ambitious than the original proposal.

Indeed, the new rules are more likely to lead to job creation as industries shift to adopt cleaner technologies and develop renewable energy sources. In West Virginia and Kentucky, two big coal producers, it makes up more than 50% of the total, for example, while in Vermont and...

Sixteen states will have tougher carbon dioxide reduction targets than they originally planned now that President Barack Obama has presented his final plan to cut emissions from U.S. power plants.

US President Barack Obama has unveiled an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the country’s coal-burning power plants, with the White House hoping that nations like India and China will be fully on board for a landmark climate change deal in Paris.

On Monday, President Barack Obama and his administration announced the new climate change rules, and Governor Tom Wolf gives his full support.

Yes he does. Those opposed to it will try and find loopholes but the American president has used the power of the Clean Air Act of 1970 to push this new plan through.

States have time until September 2016 to submit plans based on targets set for them by the EPA, but must comply by 2022.

The plan aims to cut carbon pollution 32 percent by the year 2030. Stanford University, Brookings Institution, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute and others submitted joint comments to the EPA advocating for a carbon tax in the final Clean Power Plan. I’m cautiously...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she steps onstage before speaking at Trident Technical College during a campaign stop, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. Theyve focused on reintroducing the former Secretary of State, presidential...

The so-called Clean Power Plan aims to require the nation’s existing power plants to slash their carbon emissions – 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.

We’ve said it before: Sen. “So I want to wait and see what he and Secretary Kerry decide”, Clinton said in response to the Keystone question. He understands that personally attacking Hillary Clinton would take the focus off of the issues that matter. “Her...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed broad increases in U.S. solar and other renewable generation but declined to say where she stands on the Keystone XL pipeline in a few of her most expansive energy remarks yet while on the campaign trail.

The statements hold significance in the run up to the global climate change conference to be held in Paris in December.