The Obama administration will announce tomorrow a sweeping plan to cut carbon emissions.
The Environmental Protection Agency will unveil its proposal that existing U.S. power plants will have to cut their carbon emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
The announcement will work through Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, which requires states to adopt performance standards for existing sources of pollution. The EPA sets the benchmarks that states must meet and can improve upon.
In a statement, Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, called the plan a "scheme" that will "raise costs and destroy American jobs."
"This goes in exactly the wrong direction," Steel said.
— Reporting by Kelly O'Donnell, Kristin Welker, Anne Thompson and Frank Thorp
First published June 1 2014, 5:45 PM
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