UN chief commends US for climate change plan

States have time until September 2016 to submit plans based on targets set for them by the EPA, but must comply by 2022.

“North Carolina has been a leader over the years when it comes to air-quality regulations and rules”, she said, “and the Clean Power Plan is an opportunity for us to just continue that progress”. The city’s Energy Integration Resource Plan, a long-term road map for energy service, is due for approval by in October by the Utilities Board, comprised of City Council.

“It looks as though the Obama administration has moved the goal post on us”, said Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana.

Thanks to Obama’s Clean Power Plan announced earlier this week, each state in the US has been charged with plotting a way to a cleaner energy future.

Yet in Washington State, a plan to cap-and-trade carbon emissions failed to get through the legislature – despite a Governor who won an election on the promise of a clean-energy economy.

He says the US has 15 years to cut carbon emissions to 32 percent below what they were a decade ago.

The President’s largest act of war on climate change calls for states to come up with individual ways in which they will help achieve this reduction goal.

“At the top of our list was the urgency of a world response to the threat of climate change“, Obama said, after meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon at the White House. “We’ve invested heavily in renewable energies to provide our members with quality power up there”, Southeastern Electric Cooperative GM Brad Schardin said.

The strongest federal carbon reduction standards to date are being met with mixed reactions in Michigan. Speaking to reporters after a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, he said, “I don’t think it’s a climate change plan”. In addition, Republican presidential hopefuls are also opposing the economics of this plan and feel that it will be disastrous and cost too much to implement. EPA also finalized standards to limit carbon pollution from new, modified and reconstructed power plants.

Power stations account for 40% of US emissions of carbon dioxide.

The Clean Power Plan is intended to be a key part of the president’s legacy on global warming, which he pledged to fight as a candidate for the in 2008.

“Driving down carbon emissions will ramp up the energy transformation that is already happening across America”.