"Last month, the Trump administration took its most significant action to date in regulating power plants — one the agency said would reduce carbon emissions from the electricity sector by as much as a third nationwide by the end of the next decade compared to 2005.

There is an issue, though: Not every state is going to see a reduction in emissions. In fact, as many as 16 states could see an increase in the amount of carbon dixiode emissions blamed for causing the bulk of climate change.

That means those states will not only be individually contributing more to global warming by 2030, but they may have to contend with increased local air pollution from coal-fired plants that may have otherwise cut back on production had the Obama administration's regulations been implemented."

Dino Grandoni reports for the Washington Post July 3, 2019. [2]