Subject: Tilting at Windmills
From: "Tom Croft" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:00:40 -0400 (EDT)

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March 29, 2017
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The Don Quixote Edition - Tilting at Windmills

Dear H,
As part of the Paris Accords (COP21), the U.S. joined 195 countries in a landmark
agreement-taking many years and 1,000s of people to complete--to roll back climate
warming. Thanks to executive orders that continue to roll out of the White House,
our promise to the world community may fall short.
In our first article, Nadja Popovich (NY Times) addresses the Trump Administration's
reversal this week of the US commitment to COP21. But Trump's order doesn't withdraw
the U.S. from the Paris climate deal, the key international treaty on global warming.
And it leaves other climate protections intact, according to our second article 
by Brad Plumer of Vox.  And, there is overpowering momentum toward responsible investment
and climate progress.  Our third article from The Guardian reports that solar output
has improved by 50%, in part thanks to the U.S. and China. Investors and businesses
are betting over the long term on a sustainable, clean economy (even Exxon offered
a thumbs up for COP21).
Unfortunately, like the mythical Don Quixote, the President is tilting at windmills,
which is a fool's errand.  By most serious economic accounts, it was the low price
of gas that choked off the sales of coal.  "Pressured by cheap and abundant natural
gas, coal is in a precipitous decline, now making up just a third of electricity
 generation in the United States. Renewables are fast becoming competitive with 
coal on price," says other sources in the Times.  So, strangling the US commitments
in Paris will probably not bring back the coal industry, despite the White House
 pandering to my brothers and sisters in the UMW. [READ MORE] [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Ffo-TnKgfGvZK4OPngXUBun3P6yUsTtk4im5O74znw3Vxuo_YWNEUCvJ65AwdCs-zD5uFQhGB8w3cjkhhF9WBQmtWmv2MQMwxtTV20sfn9DT8sLM6z-OcSNkvT51GW3kFYDQ8ZRFwZOI_Bim1T7svjn75uWvGEBpsLIuw7mQeOhCbYTsP9NNKO-iI8yJWp6z4mAVMjHHuwMIKzbw0N10DDj1Cqd0nihDWxh_yWH3wqISpr4RJCZMESbvCLm9TJkRj4d3GyD-GMdtibR_KYsqv7lSCUxLk4tR&c=99wfk6oiUmf-qDZOJsInET47MpMbW-gdZ1pinXWg-0s9FrPNIiIYsw==&ch=QTshAR_3XjUz3NN-OgalPCseuO30vmLT-sECj2rUHfxdhEku1Ur5HQ==]
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During  his first two months in office, President Donald J. Trump has rolled  back
key Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations. Without these rules in  place, the United
States is set to fall far short of its 2015 Paris  Agreement pledge to lower emissions
by at least 26 percent below 2005  levels by 2025.
Here is how some of President Barack Obama's signature policies have fared so far
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During  his first two months in office, President Donald J. Trump has rolled  back
key Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations. Without these rules in  place, the United
States is set to fall far short of its 2015 Paris  Agreement pledge to lower emissions
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The Trump's Big New Executive Order to Tear Up Obama's Climate Policies, explained
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