With the Clean Power Plan, the President’s three main objectives include mitigating risky climate change, protecting the public’s health and providing worldwide leadership.
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President Obama is clearly on the side of renewable energy, despite critics who say the new plan will drive up electricity bills.
US President Barack Obama has announced radical plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in America, but is facing opposition from a number of climate change doubters.
Additionally, the EPA refined its four building blocks that states are meant to use to cut carbon emissions, removing energy efficiency and putting less emphasis on an early switch from coal to gas, among other measures.
Pursuant to Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, EPA’s Clean Power Plan establishes final statewide Carbon dioxide emission standards for existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units that will reduce Carbon dioxide emissions by 32% as measured from a 2005 baseline. Many states, however, have threatened not to comply. State regulators are trying to determine how the EPA calculated these numbers, which are significantly different from what the Energy and Environment Cabinet predicted the state’s emissions would be during that time period.
Congress could address all three failings with a simple, economy-wide, market-based, long-term strategy that could credibly replace the president’s Clean Power Plan. “These regulations, if allowed to proceed, will do serious harm to West Virginia and the U.S. economy and that is why we are taking quick action to bring this process to a halt”, said Morrisey in a news release.
“We’re really trying to get a grasp on the total costs are right now”. “We’re the last generation that can do something about it”, Obama said.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan has already drawn plenty of criticism since the final details were unveiled this week.
The Sierra Club’s Sandy Bahr said Obama’s plan is an important step in stopping climate change before its too late – and she, said, it’s a huge opportunity for the state. “And I’m sure that this will impact other countries”. “I am extremely disappointed by this”, said Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana.
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Ban said he plans to meet with officials from several key countries on climate change during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September.
