Obama era clean power plan to be binned

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US environment agency to end dalliance with country’s first limits on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants

The Trump administration has taken action to repeal President Obama’s regulation that set the first-ever limits on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, much to the chagrin of previous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrators and environmental groups, but to the apparent satisfaction of the chemical industry.