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- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil-fuel power plants on Sept 14.
- The agency will announce the repeal during the G20 energy ministers’ meeting in Houston, Texas.
- EPA also plans to repeal the federal endangerment finding that power-plant greenhouse gases threaten health.
- Power plants are the United States’ largest industrial greenhouse-gas source, ranking sixth worldwide if a country.