We will discuss Obama's Clean Power Plan, how it can lead to a solution to climate change, how it will survive the legal challenges, how it will affect the 2016 presidential elections and how it will affect Maryland. Because this is breaking news there is no single TED Talk you can view ahead of time. Instead, I am looking at YouTube videos as they become available and posting the ones I find interesting.
- Short promotion of the Plan
- Obama's announcement, this is long and will not be shown at the meeting, but it will be discussed. So watch this one if you only have time to watch one video.
- A summary of plan and its process by Gina McCarthy
- The connection to the UN Paris Summit
- A surprisingly honest assessment of the Plan by Europeans
- A look-back at climate politics
- The legal challenge by some governors, including Scott Walker
- Will old fashion coal politics still play a part?
- Will this kill the US coal industry?
- HERE is a long but interesting talk about coal's dominance in energy
Here is a link to the clip of Obama's Anger Translator at the WHCD.
Also during the meeting the Scott Walker clip above was not shown. This clip of Roy Blunt was shown instead.
For those concern about how the Plan affects nuclear power, HERE is a response by the NEI.
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