1 billion metric tons of carbon pollution will be prevented, thanks to the EPA’s new rules for the c

The new rules are part of the Biden administration’s efforts to eliminate carbon pollution economy-wide by 2050. 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 from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest...