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EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson acknowledged that the agency will miss the target value for float new proposals centered at the end of September

new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. power plants is likely to be proposed later this month, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has admitted.

The agency originally intended to produce the first proposal on September 30, but EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, told Reuters news agency Tuesday that the aim was not met.

"greenhouse gas emissions from power plants for the first time in the agenda," he said on the sidelines of an event in San Francisco. "Although it is not going to the date at the end, we are still working and will soon announce a new schedule. "

However, the EPA is to conduct the first national standards for emissions of mercury and acid gas plants.
"We still intend to conclude that the decision in November," Jackson told Reuters.