Article “Clean Air Act, Reinterpreted, Would Focus on Flexibility and State-Level Efforts” opens;
“With no chance of Congressional support, President Obama is staking part of his legacy on a big risk: that he can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by stretching the intent of a law decades old and not written with climate change in mind.”
WATCHDOG: They have this backwards. If he didn’t act to address climate change, his legacy would be not only at risk, but trashed by future generations.
Sometimes circumstances will not permit the accomplishment of one’s goals, but that should not deter efforts in those directions with the understanding that today’s set backs are the stepping stone for future success by others. Major change comes from educating the next generations.
