Clean Power Plan

Even though Indiana ranks fifth in the most power plant emissions in the country, it has still cut emissions in half since 2005.

The new Affordable Clean Energy rule allows states to set their own goals for greenhouse gas emissions.

The Affordable Clean Energy rule is the Trump administration's replacement for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.

New rules from the Environmental Protection Agency give states the power to set their own goals for greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Many Hoosiers want to see the set reduce carbon emissions, even as the federal government moves to rollback climate policies.

Industry groups cheered the move, while environmental groups continue to decry the Trump Administration's rollback of Obama-era climate regulations.

Trump's executive order reverses an array of Obama-era climate policies.

President-elect Donald Trump promised to revive the U.S. coal industry, but many industry experts are skeptical.

Some, like Indianapolis Power and Light's plant in Indianapolis, are converting to run on natural gas.

Coal industry representatives in Indiana, one of the nation's top coal-producing states, say the Supreme Court's stay of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan has little immediate effect on the state.