Posted on 06/19/2013 10:43:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — 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.
“The grim alternative affects all nations — more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise,” Mr. Obama said. “This is the future we must avert. This is the global threat of our time. And for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late. That is our job. That is our task. We have to get to work.”
Ms. Zichal suggested in her remarks that a central part of the administration’s approach to dealing with climate change would be to use the authority given to the Environmental Protection Agency to address climate-altering pollutants from power plants under the Clean Air Act. She said none of the initiatives being considered by the administration required legislative action
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“climate change”
He’s going to try to change the oceans’ levels from eastern Aferca.
England is in the Atlantic, so it’s a racist ocean.
Good king Barack H. Canute
Climate changes four times a year: spring, summer, fall, winter. Is he going to stop the changing of the seasons?
I can turn back the hands of time, you better believe I can.
I can make the seasons change, just by waving my hand.
I can change anything from old to new.
The things I want to do the most, I’m unable to do.
Can’t make Climate science real.
The REAL problem is dihydrogen monoxide...
When, oh when, are they going to ban this toxic substance!
It's in all of our rivers and streams.
Do it for the children!
ARRRGRGGGHH!!!!
Meanwhile...Tropical Storm Barry has formed in the Gulf...someone has a sense of humor.
CORRECTION:
If cap n’ trade taxes and regulations are passed the grim outcome affects all nations — more severe poverty, more famine and totalitarian control, new waves of refugees, jobs that vanish, dictators that rise to power. All of our freedoms and money gone because everything causes carbon.
This is the future we must avert. This is the global threat of our time. And for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront politicians pushing climate change regulations before it is too late. That is our job. That is our task. We have to get to work.
THERE. FIXED IT.
I think you nailed it with that reply. He and Sasquatch hate the USA.
Time to crush the EPA like a bug, before they do it to us!
Taxpayer monies will be funneled to them, as always, to pay for their "cleanup", and energy prices will skyrocket (look at gasoline, which, under Bush, was trumpeted by the State Run Media, and under Obama, you hear NOTHING of the $4 gas prices today).
This is so much bullshit, that it's no wonder DHS, IRS, and other Government Agencies are buying bullets at a record pace....they're gonna need 'em.
maybe he can launch a big effort to make the sun rise in the east, next.
for starters....get a smaller AF001
"Climate change" is the new mantra, given that the AGW meme of the leftist/statist/death-lovers has fallen apart.
Gotta keep the fear stoked: they changed the name of the game (global warming) to a catch-all situation.
Hey leftist idiots - get a clue: the climate has always changed and will always be changing, and ain't nuthin you gonna do to stop it.
He believes he is god.
If it overreaches??? I thought it did long ago.
I like it. I think we need to start a petition to have it changed to THAY.
Same applies to the courts.
+1
Let's eat grandpa?
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CORRECTION:
Rather, he CLAMS to be God!
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