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The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating climate change that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014. [1] The final version of the plan was unveiled by President Barack Obama on August 3, 2015. [ 2 ]
In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama called for a goal, "By 2035, 80 percent of America's electricity will come from clean energy sources." [14] In January 2017, President Obama published an article arguing that private-sector incentives will help drive decoupling of emissions and economic growth.
The decree's main target is former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan that required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants. President Trump signs order sweeping away Obama-era ...
After the 2016 presidential election and the installation of the Trump administration at the start of 2017, the EPA effectively stated its intent to repeal the Clean Power Plan by March 2017 and to replace it with a new rule that was intended to keep its authority "within the fenceline", and asked the D.C. District to put the case in abeyance. [15]
At 2:15 p.m. on Monday August 3, President Barack Obama addressed the final version of his climate change policy which plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants. Twitter users ...
Most recently in August, Obama announced he would limit carbon emissions from all US power plants by 32% from 2005 levels by 2030.
The Clean Power Plan, first proposed in 2014, was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating global warming. The plan's goal was to move away from coal and instead use renewable energy or gas to generate electricity, which would reduce particulate matter in the environment.
President Donald Trump will order the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the White House said on Monday, once again placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse gas ...