Rules to be finalised after public consultations aims to prevent 2,700 to 6,600 premature deaths and about 150,000 asthma attacks The United States (US) has released its draft rules to regulate carbon emissions as a part of president Barack Obama?s climate change agenda. It directly targets coal power plants and aims to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 30 per cent nationwide below 2005 levels by 2030. The rules made by the US Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) and released on June 2 are said to be a much awaited and bold step taken by US on climate change so far. Power plants account for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in the US, which has around 600 such plants. While there are limits in place for the level of arsenic, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particle pollution that power plants can emit, there are currently no national limits on carbon pollution levels, said USEPA in a statement released on June 2.

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