Report: Obama poised to announce 30 per cent cuts to US coal emissions

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Obama claims failure to limit carbon emissions from power plants is 'not smart, not safe, and doesn't make sense'

President Obama continued to lay the ground this weekend for today's landmark announcement of new coal emission rules, using his weekly radio address to declare that it was time to stop energy companies...

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