US Supreme Court Suspends Obama's Carbon Emissions Cuts

The U.S. Supreme Court has put on hold President Obama's plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's power plants. Obama announced the regulations in August as a way to fight climate change, saying states had until September 2016 to come up with their own plans to meet a target of reducing emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels. But a group of 27 states balked at the Clean Power Plan and filed a lawsuit, saying it amounted to an overstep by the Environmental...

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