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Columnist at the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

The Clean Power Plan—a component of the latest update to the Clean Air Act, which began in the 1950s—requires states to reduce their coal power plants’ emissions by 30 percent of 2005 levels, over the next five years.
June 15, 2015

Clean Power Plan Affects Black Quality of Life

By Jazelle Hunt  /  Policy and Legislation Team

Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionately suffer the effects of air pollution caused by outdated methods of energy production like coal power plants.