President Barack Obama has just announced America’s “first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution from power plants.” His “Clean Power Plan” calls for a 32 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. Why? America’s electricity is still mostly coal-fired, with natural gas being a close second and nuclear a distant third. The U.S. is second only to China, which is about twice as reliant on coal, in annual carbon dioxide emissions.…
Electric cars are only as green as their power grid
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