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2. Fossil fuel regulations in the United States - Wikipedia

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   With the shuttering of coal plants, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association estimates that over one million jobs will be lost. [13] With the coal industry aging, many coal mines are deteriorating and becoming costly to keep running. As a result, coal plants are no longer a reliable, go-to energy source for the United States. [11]

3. US appeals court allows EPA rule on coal-fired power plants ...

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   The EPA projects that the rule will yield up to $370 billion in climate and health net benefits and avoid nearly 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, equivalent to preventing ...

4. Timeline of major U.S. environmental and occupational health ...

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   1967 – California Air Resources Board established; set emissions standards predating EPA. 1967 – Air Quality Act (amendment to CAA) 1969 – Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act; 1969 – National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1970 – Reorganization Plan No. 3 created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by Presidential Executive ...

5. Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 - Wikipedia

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   SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands. SMCRA also created the Office of Surface Mining, an agency within the Department of the Interior, to promulgate regulations, to fund state regulatory and reclamation efforts, and to ensure consistency among state regulatory ...

6. TVA reviewing 'extensive' new EPA emissions, coal ash rules ...

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   Between coal and gas plants, the EPA's new regulations are projected to eliminate 1.38 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, the same as preventing the annual emissions of 328 ...

7. Strict new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to ...

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   Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions ...