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Obama: New Power Plan 'Flexible and Achievable'

President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan to be announced Monday will establish unprecedented pollution controls in the United States. Obama is expected to say that leaving the next generation a pollution-free and undamaged planet is a "moral obligation." In a fact sheet on the new regulations released Sunday, the White House touted its new plan as "flexible and achievable." The plan sets carbon pollution reduction goals for power plants but also allows...

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