Obama's Carbon Rules

摘要

President obama's clean power Plan-his Administration's historic proposal to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, hyped by supporters and detractors alike as a revolution in climate-change action-just doesn't add up. I say this with some hesitation, even some embarrassment. During Obama's first term, while environmentalists kept complaining that he wasn't talking enough about global warming, I kept writing that he was doing more about global warming than anyone who ever lived. His stimulus bill was launching a clean-energy boom, his fuel-efficiency rules were ratcheting down greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and trucks, and his new regulations on soot, mercury and other stuff coming out of power plants were accelerating a shift away from carbon. Coal produces three-fourths of our emissions from electricity, though it generates just over a third of our electricity, and I recently predicted that Obama's carbon rules would take his well-justified (though often denied) war on coal to the next level.