The Clean Power Plan: What Stakeholders Are Saying About It (Photo Gallery)

Aug. 4, 2015
Everyone has an opinion about the Environmental Protection Agency’s final Clean Power Plan.

On Aug. 3, President Barack Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced the administration’s Clean Power Plan, which establishes the first-ever national standard to limit carbon pollution from power plants.

“We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, and we are the last generation who can do something about it,” said Obama. “We only get one home. We only get one planet. There’s no plan B.”

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Sandy Smith

Sandy Smith is the former content director of EHS Today, and is currently the EHSQ content & community lead at Intelex Technologies Inc. She has written about occupational safety and health and environmental issues since 1990.

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