That's More Like It
John Broder, in his next day story, tries to [you choose] 1) atone, 2) appease, 3) fill in the blank.
“We’ll never know what this president could have achieved,” said Joseph J. Romm, a former Department of Energy official who is one of the country’s most influential writers on climate change, “because he didn’t try.”
“the window for comprehensive action on climate change in the United States has closed for the foreseeable future”
Too optimistic, I think. But we can always hope.
If Romm got his wish, the dem’s would have lost the senate as well.
‘the window for comprehensive action on climate change in the United States has closed for the foreseeable future’
IMHO Take out the word ‘comprehensive’ and the statement pretty much evaluates false.
The electric power industry wants some level of legislative guidance rather then being slowly picked apart by the EPA. Power plants are a 40-60 year investment. 1/3 of US coal fired plants are already older then 40 and 90% of them will be more then 40 years old by 2030.
Without a severe drop in electricity consumption there is going to have to be a massive reinvestment in generating capacity in beginning later this decade.
5 years from initial planning to shovel in the ground isn’t unusual in the power industry. They have to decide ‘invest in what’ fairly soon.