Olympian: Good for President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency. By proposing that states achieve a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, they've taken an important step toward facing reality.
Climate change is real, and its long-term consequences may be devastating. The nations of the world have set a goal of limiting global warming to 3.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels in order to forestall a sea level rise of more than about 3 feet by the end of this...