“So that’s my plan. The actions I’ve announced today should send a strong signal to the world that America intends to take bold action to reduce carbon pollution.” — President Barack Obama, June 25, 2013, Georgetown University.
In a spirited speech on the campus of Georgetown University to an audience of students, President Barack Obama laid out a four-step plan designed to reduce green house gas emissions from cars, trucks, factories, and power plants—a plan that the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works says in a report, is controlled by the “Billionaire’s Club.”
The report, which came out in July 2014, accuses “a club of billionaires and their foundations” of controlling “the environmental movement and Obama’s [Environmental Protection Agency].”
During his speech, Obama touted the administration’s progress in securing America’s energy future by using more solar and wind energy, improving technology on cars to save more gas, and producing more of our own oil leading to the goal of independence from other nations’ oil.
