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Impact on Maine of Proposed EPA Rules Cutting Carbon Emissions

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On June 2nd, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its new clean power plan for regulating electric power plants. The goal: a 30% reduction in emissions from America’s single largest source of carbon pollution. But what will this plan look like in Maine? How will it affect Maine businesses? And will it be enough?

Guests:  Stephen Mulkey, President of Unity College, and has directed Environmental Science Programs at The University of Idaho and the University of Florida.

David Littell, Maine Representative to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, also known as “REGGIE.”  He’s currently a Commission of the Maine Public Utilities Commission.  He was Commissioner of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection between 2005 and 2010.

Lisa Pohlmann, Executive Director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine.

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