Obama Preparing Big Effort to Curb Climate Change

[alp227]

Source: NYT

President Obama is preparing a major policy push on climate change, including, for the first time, limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants, as well as expanded renewable energy development on public lands and an accelerated effort on energy efficiency in buildings and equipment, senior officials said Wednesday.

Heather Zichal, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change, said the president would announce the new policy initiatives in the coming weeks. Another official said a presidential address outlining the new policy could come as early as next week.

“He is serious about making it a second-term priority,” Ms. Zichal said at a forum in Washington sponsored by the magazine The New Republic. “He knows this is a legacy issue.”

In a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, Mr. Obama said that the United States and the world had a moral imperative to take “bold action” to slow the warming of the planet.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/science/earth/obama-preparing-big-effort-to-curb-climate-change.html

[iandhr]

1. How soon before...

... people here start bashing the President on this.

[Scootaloo]

2. last night

Lots of eye-rolling over the Keystone pipeline after an article was posted about this

[SkyDaddy7]

3. Exactly!!

Here is a wonderful article on Obama & the environment...It is full of FACTS many here on DU like to ignore or simply refuse to admit because it does not mesh with their want for Obama to be "Just like Bush" on the climate!!

http://nymag.com/news/features/obama-climate-change-2013-5/

[olddad56]

4. so if you are skeptical of Obama's rhetoric by now, does that make you wrong for being..

skeptical of this.

[geek tragedy]

6. Only if you complain he doesn't use the bully pulpit enough nt

[Politicalboi]

5. He needs to end the pipeline

And fracking. I trust Obama on this issue, I'm not bashing him, I just want to see the pipeline gone, and fracking only being used to capture the gasses that may harm us, not for energy.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Sure he is.

[medeak]

9. don't understand how haters get away with posts

no one NO ONE could have remained on this website 12 yrs ago saying ANYTHING negative.

[roguevalley]

10. who decides what's negative? One person's negative is someone else's questioning. really

who gets to be the executioner of someone's viewpoint?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Can he put limits on emissions without the House having to pass it?

(sorry if the NYT answers that, but it's behind a paywall)

If he can't, it will at least lay out the Democratic position, and hopefully by 2014 that will be a plus in elections. If the electorate gets informed about climate change, anyway.