The Power of a Plan - Coming Clean; The Environmental Protection Agency's new "Clean Power Plan" for reducing carbon pollution from power plants will have significant public health, economic, and climate benefits during the coming decades. But, as Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune writes, it's also had some immediate and noteworthy results that even the EPA couldn't have predicted. Possibly, by 2030, clean, renewable energy will be playing a much bigger role in our economy than the EPA is guessing, and that transformation will multiply the already significant public health, economic, and climate benefits we're expecting from these carbon pollution reductions.
Should that be called an accidental outcome? |