BY DANIEL HALPER
Daniel P. Schrag, a White House climate adviser and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, tells the New York Times "a war on coal is exactly what's needed." Later today, President Obama will give a major "climate change" address at Georgetown University.
“Everybody is waiting for action,” Schrag tells the paper. “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”
Obama's speech today is expected to offer "a sweeping plan to address climate change on Tuesday, setting ambitious goals and timetables for a series of executive actions to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and prepare the nation for the ravages of a warming planet," according to the Times. POTUS Georgetown speech.
Here's the full context of Schrag's quotation:
Daniel P. Schrag, a geochemist who is the head of Harvard UniversityÂ’s Center for the Environment and a member of a presidential science panel that has helped advise the White House on climate change, said he hoped the presidential speech would mark a turning point in the national debate on climate change.
When the left speaks of using "clean energy," they are not speaking of coal energy. Unfortunately, such decisions have far-reaching consequences. Utilities, the coal industry, the rail industry, and many manufacturing industries are affected negatively. Such decisions increase costs and prices and are job-killing. Of course, there is always the possibility that the unintended consequences are intended as no one could be that ignorant. |