[troutman]

President Obama’s Mandate on Global Warming

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html

The Environmental Protection Agency will have new regulations to aggressively cut carbon pollution from the nation’s coal-burning power plants.

This is huge. While there have been some relatively minor pushes for alternative energy production and reduction in pollution from other sources (such as cars and other vehicles), there has been no action on coal plant pollution for decades. This is despite the fact that coal burning accounts for a whopping one-third of the carbon dioxide emitted in the US.

What is just as inevitable as the rise of our sea levels: Republican obstructionism of the new EPA rules.