EPA reveals plans to cut power plant carbon emissions by close to 40% in Florida

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Emissions from smokestacks at TECO's Big Bend plant in Hillsborough County. By Seán Kinane / WMNF News (2010).

Today on Radioactivity, Rob Lorei opens the phone lines to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency plan to cut carbon emissions by almost 40% in Florida and 30% nationally in the next 16 years. The Clean Power Plan is part of President Obama’s initiative to reduce pollution linked to climate change.

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