EPA proposes rules for new power plants
WASHINGTON – Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and Republicans that it would dim coal’s future.
The proposal, which would set the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants, is intended to help reshape where Americans get electricity, moving from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner sources of energy.
Under the law once the Environmental Protection Agency controls carbon at new plants, it will also control carbon at existing plants – a regulation the agency said Friday it would start work on immediately to meet a June 2014 deadline.
Assailants fire into crowd at Chicago park
CHICAGO – Armed with an assault rifle, assailants indiscriminately sprayed a crowded Chicago park with bullets during a neighborhood basketball game. A 3-year-old boy was struck in the face, among 13 people wounded during the apparent gang shooting.
The shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, on the city’s southwest side, in Cornell Square Park, which was crowded with people watching a neighborhood basketball game.
McCarthy said officers were “interviewing a number of people.”
Associated Press
