Coal plant US new rules could lead to a steep fall in emissions.

The Obama administration today introduced a sweeping new plan, aimed, return 600 coal plants to about a third of country's CO2 emissions. Gina McCarthy, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, said the new rules States maximum flexibility power plant to reduce emissions to 30 percent below the level from 2005 to 2030 would achieve the objective. Hundreds of coal fired power plants are expected to be under the EPA plan. But immediately shut down plants, States would their electricity - due to the installation of new wind and generation or energy efficiency must not continue to reduce emissions through changes systemwide solar technology, the use of natural gas and start or participate in State and regional "Cap and Trade"-programs. "There is no standard solution so you can distinguish each State path", McCarthy said. The proposed rules could be held by legal challenges. The Obama administration officials said that the rules in a clear global leadership to combat global warming will raise the United States.

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