President Obama calls the plan a historic step in his administration’s fight on climate change.
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Whatever the case may be, critics of the Clean Power Plan have long argued that reducing coal as an energy source will result in fewer jobs and higher energy prices. “This is hugely important and visionary leadership”.
Sixteen states will have tougher carbon dioxide reduction targets than they originally planned now that President Barack Obama has presented his final plan to cut emissions from U.S. power plants. “It is a bad deal for America, and we will pursue all available options, including litigation if necessary, to block EPA’s regulatory power grab from taking effect”, said the Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Thomas Donohu.
“We are the first generation to feel the impacts of climate change, and the last generation to be able to do something about it”.
During their bilateral talks, Obama and Ban also discussed crises in Syria, Yemen, Libya and South Sudan.
Morrisey and other officials nationwide plan to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration that will be later challenged in court.
A survey conducted in eight battleground states, including Virginia, shows voters are concerned about climate change and support the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan.
New York’s agriculture industry and ski resorts in the state are applauding the plan, Enck said, because climate change threatens to hurt their bottom line in the decades ahead. Even within the environmental groups, there were differences in opinion about the technical details of the plan.
New federal rules designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants have coal advocates speaking out.
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Consumers Energy, the leading electric provider to West Michigan, Tuesday said it was “favorably positioned” to meet the clean air rules in the federal government’s new Clean Power Plan. The state gets most of its energy from nuclear power and natural gas, with only a small fraction coming from coal. Second, the plan is only a medium-term policy, when some of the hardest emissions-cutting work will have to come after 2030.
