EPA faces wave of lawsuits after Obama's climate change rule officially adopted

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Obama's Clean Power Plan has been made law via a new rule in the federal register, sparking a flood of legal challenges from coal-dependent states

President Obama's signature climate change policy, the Clean Power Plan, formally entered official US legislation on Friday with the publication of a new rule in the Federal Register. The publication...

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