Obama picks climate fight with regulations on current power plants

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Washington Examiner:

President Obama on Tuesday will call for unprecedented U.S. regulations to reduce carbon emissions from current power plants and a doubling of renewable energy production on public lands, unveiling a blueprint to fight climate change that completely sidesteps Congress and is certain to stoke a broader political fight that will define his second term.

The carbon limits on new and existing power plants are the centerpieces of Obama’s environmental plan, to be announced in a major speech at Georgetown University Tuesday afternoon. A senior administration official said the president would call for his Environmental Protection Agency to develop emissions standards for power plants by June 2014, with the intent of finalizing the plan in June 2015.

It’s an ambitious benchmark full of uncertainty, as the cap on carbon emissions from existing power plants is expected to trigger a flurry of lawsuits both within the electricity industry and from localities that say the regulations would destroy jobs. There’s no guarantee that such measures would even be implemented by the time Obama leaves office.

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White House: Obama will direct EPA to go after existing coal plants

 

 

President Obama will direct the Environmental Protection Agency to tighten regulations on carbon emissions from existing coal plants as part of a climate change policy he will unveil today that does not require congressional approval.

“The president will be issuing a presidential memorandum directing the EPA to start the important work they’re going to do, not only on new but existing coal plants as well,” a senior administration official told reporters during a background briefing on Obama’s coming speech. “We are beginning a process, and that process will involve a very aggressive set of stakeholder conversations — including the states, labor, utilities and others . . . [that] will ultimately allow us to develop a rule that provides common sense rules of the road, that does have industry support, and allows for a common sense timely transition to a clean energy economy.”

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Obama’s memorandum will put EPA on a schedule to propose the rule by June of next year and finalize it the following year. The senior administration officials avoided saying explicitly if the rule will hold coal to the same emissions standard as other power sources, such as natural gas plants.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-obama-will-direct-epa-to-go-after-existing-coal-plants/article/2532346

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Whitehouse: President Obama's Plan to Fight Climate Change

 

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What a great super duper plan it is to.

We should get behind our President otherwise.....

 

 

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

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Whitehouse: President Obama's Plan to Fight Climate Change

 

@Geee

 

What a great super duper plan it is to.

We should get behind our President otherwise.....

 

 

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

 

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Whitehouse: President Obama's Plan to Fight Climate Change

 

@Geee

 

What a great super duper plan it is to.

We should get behind our President otherwise.....

 

 

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

 

Now that he is focused on this and has made it a top priority, he will be able to do for the environmental movement what he has done for the Healthcare industry, the economy, green energy, foreign policy. Oh Yeah I see big things on the horizon now.