OBAMA CLIMATE PLAN DISSED BY CONGRESS DENIERS

Obama climate change plan gets first airing in front of House sceptics; EPA asserted authority to move forward without new laws from Congress at hearing where contrarian views were on display

Suzanne Goldenberg, 18 September 2013 (UK Guardian)

“The Obama administration asserted its authority to move forward on its climate change action plan…with or without new laws from Congress…In the first airing of Obama's climate plan, a hearing of the House of Representatives was told the Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies were already authorised to bring in new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…EPA administrator Gina McCarthy... is expected to reveal a core pillar of that climate plan this week when the EPA proposes new standards for future coal plants…About a dozen members of the House energy committee deny the science behind climate change, and those contrarian views were on full display…[T]he Republican climate contrarianism – and by extension resistance to action on climate – indicated the battles ahead for McCarthy and Obama as they move ahead…” click here for more

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