++President Obama will take on June 1st the most significant steps a President has done to combat climate change or ,as the polls suggest, global warming, which scares people more.
++President Obama plans by executive action to cut carbon emissions from coal-powered plants by 20% over 6 years and close down hundreds of coal-burning plants.
++He will also adopt a "plug-in" style of cap and trade. Presently there are two operative cap and trade systems in the United States --Massachusetts and California. The plan is that states will link up with them.
++He will also allow states to form their own plans to use more alternative energy sources like wind and solar.
++Early reports are that this will have more of an environment impact than stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline. This makes me a little nervous.
++With the reaction to the West Point speech on foreign policy,these actions will make the political culture howl even more intensely. Maybe the Imperial Post will write an editorial about how naive the President is. Conservatives are already hawking Andrew McCarthy's new book on why President Obama should be impeached. The New York Times is already touting this action as probably the most significant contribution to President Obama's legacy.
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