New York Times: Congress has “left state regulators in the lurch” by failing to set new national climate policy that could guide regulators’ decisions on the fate of coal-fired electric power generators in their states, the new chairman of a task force on climate policy says. Ron Binz, who heads the climate task force of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), said in an interview that U.S. EPA will provide some help for state officials next year to fill the vacuum …