Obama puts Harper to shame

Yes he does. Those opposed to it will try and find loopholes but the American president has used the power of the Clean Air Act of 1970 to push this new plan through.

Power plants account for roughly one-third of all US emissions of the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming, making them the largest single source.

Obama said: “We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence”.

Gov. John Kasich was even more critical.

President Obama’s Clean Power Plan is about 1,500 pages long, but it can be summed up succinctly: Mr. Obama wants the United States to be more like California. Many climate scientists say the emissions the Clean Power Plan seeks to limit are causing the Earth’s climate to warm, resulting in increased flooding and droughts.

“I’m very disappointed in the administration’s pushing of these regulations that will be so hard on families already strapped trying to make their budgets work. there has to be some common sense that comes into places that doesn’t place the environment above people”. “If it is going to look at renewable energy and not use standard fuel like coal or natural gas, it will affect climate change in a positive way, and we as a health department are in line with that”. “They ought to start by telling us what they’re for”.

The proposal was lauded by state environmental groups.

New York should be able to easily comply with the regulations because it generates only about 3.5 percent of its electricity from coal, said Judith Enck, the EPA’s regional administrator.

Under the plan, the administration will require states to meet specific carbon emission reduction standards, based on their individual energy consumption.

But now that the EPA’s rules have been finalized, they will face an onslaught of legal challenges coming from both the energy industry and politicians who represent coal-producing states.

President Obama and EPA officials unveiled the final version of the plan on Monday. “At the very minimum, the States and their citizens should not be forced to suffer these serious harms until the courts have had an opportunity to review the Rule’s legality”.

Vermont, Alaska and Hawaii.

Under the President’s order, states have been given until 2018 to present individual strategies for reducing dependency on coal-generated power.

The goal for the state will represent a 33 percent reduction from the goal set in 2012.