Obama’s agenda: EPA leading the charge on climate change

Politico ^ | Jan 31, 2014 | ERICA MARTINSON

[Innovative]

President Barack Obama’s environmental regulators will spend the rest of this year writing climate rules that would reshape the nation’s electricity supply, throw a cloud over the future of coal power and take the biggest stride ever in throttling the nation’s greenhouse gas pollution.

While the EPA takes on carbon pollution from thousands of power plants, the State Department is moving to carry out Obama’s orders to cut off funding for many coal projects overseas.

Last year, the administration quietly rejiggered a wonky calculation known as the “social cost of carbon” in a way that will make it easier to justify the economic burdens of a wide range of climate regulations.

The regulators are racing the calendar to get the rules in shape to take effect before Obama leaves office.

[allendale]

Point well taken but hope springs forth eternal.

[GOPJ]

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