The Obama administration’s newly aggressive push to curb heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere looks to alter how the the country generates electricity and likely will alter its bills. Environmental groups and utilities said President Obama’s plan to increase regulation of carbon dioxide emissions could rattle the electric industry in ways that will be neither easy nor cheap. The linchpin of Obama’s plan is controls on new and existing power plants. Forty percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, and one-third of greenhouse gases overall, come from electric power plants. Coal-fired power plants like those that supply much of the power to light up Kansas and Missouri...
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