President Obama today received high praise from United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon, who said the US leader displayed "visionary leadership" for his plan to tackle greenhouse gases.
Our reputation-rebounding commander-in-chief also got rare kudos from his usual adversary, New York Times, which yesterday dubbed Obama's Clean Power Plan "the strongest action ever taken to combat climate change."
There's no question the Clean Power Plan is a PR boost for the US president.
The reality: the President's effort to "demonize" carbon leaves much to be desired.
Michael Grunwald, writing in Politico, hit the nail on the head, saying Obama's targets to cut power plan emissions are far less than ambitious.
He notes that America's rapidly shrinking coal sector has been already achieved half of the Clean Power Plan's emissions targets.
As evidenced by today's Chapter 11 filing by Alpha Natural Resources, one of the country's biggest coal companies, more cuts are on the way.
In announcing the bankruptcy, Alpha said the US coal industry "is in an undue period of distress with increased competition from natural gas, an oversupply in the global coal market and historically low prices due to weaker international and domestic economies and increasing government regulation." Nice timing, Alpha.
Obama's climate change offerring does serve one important purpose. Introduction of the Clean Power Plan assures that climate change will be a front and center issue in the 2016 Presidential elections as Democrats line up in support of of a climate change thrust, while Republicans rail against its cost and the threat of more Big Government interference in the marketplace.
Obama deserves a pat in the back for shining a bright light on one of the biggest issues facing the world today. Can President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders follow through?
A focus on all the ways that greenhouse gases are created, not just from fossil fuels, marks the evolution from clean energy and clean tech to climate tech, according to Melissa Mahoney from V2 Communications.
Kristin Wilson-Palmer, who has been a senior VP in Edelman’s Washington, DC office since 2021, joins the Natural Resources Defense Council as chief communications officer.
Educating the next generation to the facts and science surrounding the climate crisis.
Melanie Janin, who was executive VP at Weber Shandwick, has joined Conservation International as chief communications & marketing officer.
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