On Monday, Obama introduced the plan at a White House event, labeling it the nation’s “biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken to combat climate change”.
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Speaking in Washington, he declared climate change the greatest threat facing the world.
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the Clean Power Plan, a landmark regulation that will benefit consumers, businesses, and the environment alike. The first-term Republican’s office responded, Monday August. 3, 2015, to s scheduled climate change announcement by President Barack Obama with a one-sentence statement that his administration is assessing the measure and its “impacts on Illinois”.
Opponents immediately announced they would sue the government to stop the rules from taking effect.
One way to reduce Kentucky’s rate of CO2 emissions would be to diversify the state’s electricity portfolio, relying more on low-emitting sources like natural gas, or renewable energy without carbon dioxide emissions.
Administrators say the Clean Energy Incentive Program will aid in the quick push of the development of renewable energy. The plan allows states to develop their own plans for how to reduce the carbon emissions. Mr Obama’s proposal from last year set the target as a 30 per cent nationwide cut by 2030, compared to the levels in 2005.
The Obama administration itself estimated the emissions limits will cost $8.4 billion annually by 2030, though the actual price isn’t clear. Plans for how states will comply are technically due next year, but there’s no penalty to asking for a two-year extension, so most states are expected to delay. “Existing power plants can still dump unlimited amounts of harmful carbon pollution into the air weekly”, he said. “About 80 percent of our power comes from coal and our coal fleet is in a various state of age”, she said. He says his state will be among a group of states “launching an aggressive legal campaign”. The White House says that this plan will drive a cleaner energy sector, reduce premature deaths from power plant emissions, and decrease pollutants that can lead to more asthma attacks in kids.
“We believe that we are ready to implement it very, very quickly”, Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani said. These building blocks are critical to displacing coal-based power, which has a long history of causing health and environmental devastation, yet remains a significant portion of many utilities’ power mix.
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Republican Rep. Matt Salmon of Arizona called the plan radical and unreasonable.
