Surprise: GE Scores First Exemption From Obama Greenhouse Gas Regulations

February 4, 2011 at 8:43am
by Meredith Jessup
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Last month, President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began regulating greenhouse gases from power plants and polluters for the first time. http://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132612887 ... wer-plants The new regulations stirred immediate controversy as critics predicted they would only slow down the nation’s economic recovery. Uncertainty in the agency’s regulations caused energy producers to stall plans for future operations in an already struggling economy.

“Finally we’ve got the rules that are beginning to require power companies to account for their global warming pollution,â€