The 2014 US Climate Action Report to the United Nations is out. The official line from the White House is celebrating how the US is going to meet the 2009 Copenhagen greenhouse gas emissions commitment. However, we read the fine print and here is Barack Obama’s fracking plan for electricity generation in 2020:
“Natural gas-fired plants account for 44 percent of capacity additions from 2012 through 2020 in the 2012 policy baseline scenario,” from the report.
This is not a happy day if you live in the shalefields, where we’ve always been just a sacrifice zone for this president. Coal and nuclear generation are also planned for an increase, not decrease. Here’s the link to the report. (PDF)
What’s your New Year’s resolution?
Alex Lotorto is Energy Justice Network’s Campus and Community Organizer
