SUMMARY OF ISSUE
Climate change is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, responsible for rising seas, raging storms, searing heat, ferocious fires, severe drought, and punishing floods. It threatens our health, communities, economy, and national security.
Worldwide, nations have begun taking steps to combat this growing threat, working toward an international agreement in which every country on earth plays its part. Many of the world's largest polluters have stepped up with significant commitments, amplified by efforts from cities, businesses, sports leagues, churches, and many other individuals and groups that have responded to the urgent need for climate action.
Here in the United States, power plants represent the single-largest source of carbon pollution, spewing two billion tons into the air each year. In response, President Obama's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed the Clean Power Plan, which sets the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants and provides states with the flexibility to meet them.
WHY ITS IMPORTANT
The plan represents the most important step the United States can take right now to combat climate change and help spur climate action around the globe, as world leaders look toward an important meeting in Paris this December. With nations working together to cap carbon pollution, expand renewable power, and embrace energy efficiency, we'll have a fighting chance at getting off this destructive path.
Climate change is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, responsible for rising seas, raging storms, searing heat, ferocious fires, severe drought, and punishing floods. It threatens our health, communities, economy, and national security.
Worldwide, nations have begun taking steps to combat this growing threat, working toward an international agreement in which every country on earth plays its part. Many of the world's largest polluters have stepped up with significant commitments, amplified by efforts from cities, businesses, sports leagues, churches, and many other individuals and groups that have responded to the urgent need for climate action.
Here in the United States, power plants represent the single-largest source of carbon pollution, spewing two billion tons into the air each year. In response, President Obama's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed the Clean Power Plan, which sets the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants and provides states with the flexibility to meet them.
WHY ITS IMPORTANT
The plan represents the most important step the United States can take right now to combat climate change and help spur climate action around the globe, as world leaders look toward an important meeting in Paris this December. With nations working together to cap carbon pollution, expand renewable power, and embrace energy efficiency, we'll have a fighting chance at getting off this destructive path.