Though many championed President Obama’s national address on climate change and energy policy last month at Georgetown University, more cautious voices argued that speeches were one thing, but actions would ultimately prove the president’s level of commitment to combating the problem of human-caused global warming.
Now, more than a month later, the voices of concern are again coming to the fore, with the top headline on the Huffington Post’s environment page declaring that development of US coal export infrastructure is a sign of “Obama’s Climate Hypocrisy” and celebrity eco-warrior Robert Redford saying that the possible approval of the Keystone XL pipeline by the president would “flat out fail” his own “common-sense test” regarding climate impacts.
As HuffPo’s Lynne Peeples reports in her piece:
But, it’s not a choice between approving new coal projects or allowing tar sands expansion, says critics. Obama must put an end to both.
As Friends of the Earth climate and energy program director Damon Moglen has said, “In order to address climate change, the president needs to focus on the ambitious development of renewable energy, energy storage and efficiency technologies while setting us on a path which clearly leaves behind the fossil fuel-based energy economy of the 20th century.”
Earlier this week, NRDC released a study showing that if the president approves Keystone XL it would be a direct and endlessly destructive decision and a complete affront to the rhetoric of his Georgetown speech.
“Our analysis clearly demonstrates that the Keystone XL pipeline would dramatically boost the development of dirty tar sands oil, significantly exacerbating the problem of climate pollution,” Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director of NRDC’s international program, said in a statement.
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