Republicans are claiming the new climate rules will wreck the economy. They’re wrong

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By Chris MooneyJun 2, 2014, 5:50 pm79 pts
Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its much anticipated plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the source of about a third of U.S. emissions. It turns out the regulations will be pretty ambitious: a 30 percent decrease in emissions in this sector from 2005…

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