Obama's New Climate Change Strategy
This week the Obama Administration unveiled their clean power plan, which aims to put more emphasis on renewable forms of energy like solar and wind. John Iadarola (Think Tank) and Jimmy Dore...
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THIS WEEK, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION UNVEILED THEIR CLEAN POWER PLAN WHICH AIMS TO PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON SOLAR AND OTHER FORMS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY, WIND, THINGS LIKE THAT, TO REACH FAIRLY AGGRESSIVE CARBON EMISSION GOALS. BY 2030 THE PLAN IS EXPECTED TO SLASH THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF THE NATION'S POWER SECTOR BY 32% BELOW 2005 LEVELS, A MORE RIGOROUS TARGET THAN THE 30% REDUCTION OUTLINED IN A DRAFT VERSION OF THE RULES RELEASED LAST SUMMER. SO BETWEEN LAST SUMMER AND THE SUMMER, SLIGHTLY MORE AGGRESSIVE GOALS, AND EVEN 2%, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CARBON OUTPUT OF AN ENTIRE NATION, ONE OF THE MOST OUTPUT-IEST NATIONS IN THE ENTIRE PLANET, THAT IS QUITE A REDUCTION. YOU WILL SEE SOME OF THE PROJECTED CHANGES ON THIS CHART, THE DOTTED BLUE LINE...
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THIS WEEK, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION UNVEILED THEIR CLEAN POWER PLAN WHICH AIMS TO PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON SOLAR AND OTHER FORMS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY, WIND, THINGS LIKE THAT, TO REACH FAIRLY AGGRESSIVE CARBON EMISSION GOALS. BY 2030 THE PLAN IS EXPECTED TO SLASH THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF THE NATION'S POWER SECTOR BY 32% BELOW 2005 LEVELS, A MORE RIGOROUS TARGET THAN THE 30% REDUCTION OUTLINED IN A DRAFT VERSION OF THE RULES RELEASED LAST SUMMER. SO BETWEEN LAST SUMMER AND THE SUMMER, SLIGHTLY MORE AGGRESSIVE GOALS, AND EVEN 2%, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CARBON OUTPUT OF AN ENTIRE NATION, ONE OF THE MOST OUTPUT-IEST NATIONS IN THE ENTIRE PLANET, THAT IS QUITE A REDUCTION. YOU WILL SEE SOME OF THE PROJECTED CHANGES ON THIS CHART, THE DOTTED BLUE LINE...
