4 Former Republican EPA Administrators Back Obama On Climate In NYT Op-Ed

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EPA administrators who worked for all of those presidents have come out in support of stronger actions on climate change, co-signing a powerful op-ed in The New York Times supporting Barack Obama’s climate plan and arguing that “the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change.”

Here are some highlights from the op-ed, which was written by William D. Ruckelshaus, Lee M. Thomas, William K. Reilly, and Christine Todd Whitman:

The costs of inaction are undeniable. The lines of scientific evidence grow only stronger and more numerous. And the window of time remaining to act is growing smaller: delay could mean that warming becomes “locked in.”

A market-based approach, like a carbon tax, would be the best path to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, but that is unachievable in the current political gridlock in Washington. Dealing with this political reality, President Obama’s June climate action plan lays out achievable actions that would deliver real progress. He will use his executive powers to require reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the nation’s power plants and spur increased investment in clean energy technology, which is inarguably the path we must follow to ensure a strong economy along with a livable climate. …

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http://grist.org/news/former-republican-epa-chiefs-back-obama-on-climate-change/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

[Cha]

1. This is Great! thanks hatrack!

[stuntcat]

2. guess it's just too bad/so sad that all the conservatives who are changing their minds about the cli

about the climate can't go back in time 20 or 30 years and help do the things we could have done back then to keep us from being in the state we're in now, and for the rest of this nasty century.

Warming's already "locked in" .. but thanks anyway you angels