Obama Has a Plan for Climate, What If It Involves Tar Sands?

[caption id="attachment_13247" align="alignleft" width="385" caption=""You see, I've got this plan..." Official White House Photo by Pete Souza"] [/caption]On a sweltering day in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama sweated as he laid out his new plan to combat climate change . In addition to the mandatory cuts in CO2 pollution from coal-fired power plants and the efforts to protect the country from the ravages of climate change highlighted by my colleague Mark Fischetti, Obama also found time to mention a little pipeline that would connect the tar sands in Alberta , Canada with refineries along the Gulf Coast in Texas. To wit: [More]