Headline Roundup • August 4th, 2015
All About the Clean Power Plan
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Fox News Digital
Before any rational discussion of the economic or scientific merits of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan can begin (it will be announced Monday), it is necessary to take his rhetoric about its benefits off the table. The president stated Sunday that his plan is "protecting the world we leave to our children.” To be generous to the president, that is a gross exaggeration.
Los Angeles Times
The coal industry already has its legal claws honed for a court battle over President Obama's Clean Energy Plan, which was unveiled Monday, claiming that it will cost too much and render people jobless. Certainly, in the short term at least, slowing climate change by reducing carbon emissions won't be cheap and it won't be easy. But the science shows: We don't have a choice. Decades of denial and delay on global warming have sharpened the need for dramatic action now.
Chicago Tribune
The final version of the Clean Power Plan, President Barack Obama's signature climate change policy, came out on Monday. Here's how to tell whether the politicians, special interests and commentators you're going to hear talking about it are worth taking seriously.
