In August the Environmental Protection Agency released the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan” designed to control carbon dioxide emission from coal-fired power plants (Sower). Under the plan, Sower reported that, each state must devise by Sept. 6, 2016, a customized program for cutting CO2 and it suggests that States can achieve this goal by phasing out older, high-polluting coal-fired power plants, adding renewable energy power sources or trading emission credits in carbon markets (Snower). There is also a shift in view among the general public. Americans increasingly agree that global warming is real and human actions are contributing to it ( Weeks.p.521). According to a report by the Washington post , President Obama has warned that Global warming is a national
In August the Environmental Protection Agency released the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan” designed to control carbon dioxide emission from coal-fired power plants (Sower). Under the plan, Sower reported that, each state must devise by Sept. 6, 2016, a customized program for cutting CO2 and it suggests that States can achieve this goal by phasing out older, high-polluting coal-fired power plants, adding renewable energy power sources or trading emission credits in carbon markets (Snower). There is also a shift in view among the general public. Americans increasingly agree that global warming is real and human actions are contributing to it ( Weeks.p.521). According to a report by the Washington post , President Obama has warned that Global warming is a national