U.S.-China deal won't change the Clean Power Plan -- McCarthy

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U.S. EPA won't tighten its greenhouse gas rulemakings to meet President Obama's new climate commitments, Administrator Gina McCarthy said today. Speaking at a Christian Science Monitor-sponsored event, she said emissions targets that Obama unveiled in Beijing last week wouldn't force EPA to revamp its proposal for power plants. The draft adheres to the Clean Air Act, she said, and is based on an assessment of the best system of emissions reduction for the sources it covers. "We're implementing the individual rules and efforts under the Climate Action Plan, including the Clean Power Plan, in a way that's consistent with the underlying [laws]," McCarthy said. "We are doing it in a consistent way in each and every rule. Not in a way where we let our end goal on climate intervene in a way that's inappropriate."