Thoughts on Obama's clean power plan

[Second Summer]

Hundreds of businesses including eBay, Nestlé and General Mills have issued their support for Barack Obama’s clean power plan, billed as the strongest action ever on climate change by a US president.

The rules, announced on Monday, are designed to cut emissions from power plants and have been strengthened in terms of the long-term ambition as originally proposed by the president last year, but slightly weakened in the short-term in a concession to states reliant on highly-polluting coal.

More: Obama's clean power plan hailed as US's strongest ever climate action | Environment | The Guardian (3. August 2015)

Thoughts?

 

[Scorpius]

Awesome on the Obama administration, sadly action like this is long, long overdue.

 

[Andy_T]

Have not had time to look into it, but sounds interesting.

I guess it will not be seen as "a big win for Obama", as wins for the environment are seldom seen as wins for politicians.
Seeing that many companies endorse it, I am however afraid, it will be in the "too little, too late" category