President Obama Takes On Global Warming

Today the president will offer his plan for tackling climate change.

June 25, 2013

WASHINGTON – Today during a Georgetown University speech, President Obama will give more details on how his plan to reduce man-made global warming will work, Eenews.net reports. Via a video over the weekend, he made the announcement that his ideas will “reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it.”

The president said his plan would be good for the country economically as it would provide jobs to engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists and workers to work on developing a low-carbon way of life. He harkened back to his inaugural speech in which he said fixing climate change was necessary for future generations. “When it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can,” he said.

Industry has expressed concern that the plan would have costly regulations. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has dismissed the president’s ideas as “absolutely crazy,” and said it would jack up energy costs, killing more American jobs.

“The law does not allow the president a broad range of options for addressing carbon emissions from existing power plants,” said Scott Segal of Bracewell & Guiliani. “If he pushes the envelope, and suggests a plan with unrealistic timetables or emissions limits, the plan may well violate the spirit and text of the Clean Air Act.”

However, environmentalists are excited about the president’s plan. “He knows that addressing climate change is not only an obligation we have to the next generation, but something we owe ourselves — because it means modernizing our energy system in order to generate electricity that is reliable, affordable, healthy and clean,” said Fred Kupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

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