Listening to Heartland Voices: The President’s Climate Action Plan
This month, Region 7 will be doing a lot of what this agency does best: listen, learn, and lead. The reason: the President has tasked the EPA to take the point on one of the most important challenges facing our generation of Americans: cutting carbon pollution that harms our health, impedes our industrial competitiveness, and poses serious challenges to Heartland communities that depend on agriculture.
The President in June announced a national Climate Action Plan. The President’s Plan assigns EPA a big job in accomplishing these vital goals: cutting carbon pollution from power plants, building a transportation sector for the 21st century, encouraging use of cleaner and avoidance of dirtier energy, and preparing this country for climate change’s impacts on weather and water.