The Obama administration has launched the US’s biggest move to combat climate change by proposing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power stations, the main source of climate pollution.
The administration wants by 2030 to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power stations by 30 per cent from 2005 levels, a move that has the potential to transform the US electricity sector but will spark a wave of legal and political challenges.
President Barack Obama hopes to make action on climate change part of his legacy. The initiative was welcomed in the EU and elsewhere as a jolt that could bring deadlocked international climate change talks back to life.