Podesta: Congress Can’t Stop Obama On Global Warming
4:24 PM 05/05/2014
White House adviser John Podesta told reporters Monday
afternoon that Congress could not derail the Obama administration’s efforts to
unilaterally enact policies to fight global warming.
Podesta said that the president
was committed to using executive orders to pass regulations under the Clean Air
Act to limit carbon dioxide emissions that they say cause global warming.
“They may try, but there are no
takers at this end of Pennsylvania
Avenue,” Podesta told reporters at a Monday press
conference at the White House.
Republicans and some Democrats in
Congress have urged the Obama
administration to scale back their climate goals because of the adverse
impact of new regulations on the coal industry. Coal supporters have portrayed the administration’s actions as the
“war on coal” due to huge job losses in coal states like Kentucky
and West Virginia.
“We’re getting the living crap
beaten out of us,” West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin told President
Obama’s nominee to be the country’s top energy regulator last year. “There has
been nothing more beat up than coal.”
“They just beat the living
daylights out of little West Virginia,
but they sure like what we produce,” Manchin told former nominee Ron Binz. “We
could do it a lot better if we had a government working with us as a partner.”
Last year, Manchin eventually
joined Republicans to oppose Binz’s nomination to head the Federal Energy
Regulatory Committee. Manchin was concerned that Binz would promote renewable
energy at the expense of coal power.
Republicans have also united to
oppose many of Obama’s most controversial global warming policies, introducing
numerous bill in both houses of Congress aimed at repealing regulatory actions.
The latest Republican effort to derail Obama’s climate goals came from Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who introduced
legislation to repeal all energy tax subsidies, which would hurt renewable
energy growth.
John Podesta
John
D. Podesta is a counselor for the Barack
Obama administration, and the founder for the Center for American Progress.
Note: Cassandra Q. Butts
was the deputy White House counsel for the Barack
Obama administration, the SVP for the Center
for American Progress, and is Barack
Obama’s law school friend.
Melody
C. Barnes was the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, the EVP for
the Center for American Progress,
and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Ezekiel Emanuel
was the health care policy adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Climate Reality Project, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Carol M. Browner
is a senior fellow, director at the Center
for American Progress, was the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
and a director at the Climate Reality
Project.
Albert
A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project, a partner at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, and was a donor at The Climate Project.
Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers was a donor for The Climate Project.
The Climate
Project was a merged organization with the Climate Reality Project.
Natural
Resources Defense Council is a partner with the Reality Coalition.
Reality
Coalition opposes coal use in
the Clean coal debate.
James Gustave
Speth is a trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and a director at the Climate Reality Project.
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