Plans for PCAP Recommendation Revealed by Obama Administration

William S. Becker is the executive director of the Baum Foundation fiscal program the Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP), which has been developing policy recommendations on climate and security for the president since 2007. Among the 10 ideas the project laid out in a 2012 report by PCAP was to make America the most energy-efficient nation in the world. Read below to see how the President is planning to implement these recommendations.

AP  |  By DINA CAPPIELLO

Obama Could Act On Climate Change Without Congress, Experts Suggest

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is talking about climate change like it was 2009.

The president, who rarely uttered the words “climate change” or “global warming” during the second half of his first term and during the re-election campaign, has re-inserted it boldly back into his lexicon. In his latest State of the Union address before Congress, Obama sounded like he did in his first, urging lawmakers to limit gases blamed for global warming “for the sake of our children and our future.” Those words followed his inaugural address, in which he said, “We will respond to the threat of climate change.”

The difference between then and now is that Obama knows Congress is unlikely to agree. He said that if Congress won’t act, he will through executive action. The question is: What will he do?

Read the full article in the Huffington Post to find out what PCAP recommendation the Obama administration has revealed plans for.

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