Green Groups Press EPA on Climate Rule Industry Seeks to Weaken
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Environmental groups are stepping up pressure on President Barack Obama to issue the first greenhouse-gas limits for power plants as the utility industry seeks to weaken the standards before a deadline next month.
The Sierra Club and its allies say a top priority for Obama in meeting his second-term pledge to deal with climate change is for his Environmental Protection Agency to issue restrictions on carbon dioxide coming from power plants. They warned against bowing to industry criticism and scaling back or putting off the rule, which spurred a record 2.67 million public comments, most in support of it.