E.P.A. to Seek 30 Percent Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030

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New York Times: Unveiling New Carbon Plan, E.P.A. Focuses on Flexibility

The Obama administration on Monday announced one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government to fight climate change, a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to people briefed on the plan.

The regulation takes aim at the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, the nation’s more than 600 coal-fired power plants. If it withstands an expected onslaught of legal and legislative attacks, experts say that it could close hundreds of the plants and also lead, over the course of decades, to systemic changes in the American electricity industry, including transformations in how power is generated and used.

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It doesn't have a magnetosphere because it's core is both less iron-rich and because it doesn't move in relation to the surface (Which is likely caused on earth due to plate tectonics which is in turn caused by... the presence of water.)

Nobody is quite sure, but it's likely one of those chicken-and-egg issues where more iron would have caused more water to form early, which would have caused a magnetosphere which would have caused more water to stay...