Video Breakdown: What Obama's Climate Rule Means for the Cleantech Industry

Video Breakdown: What Obama’s Climate Rule Means for the Cleantech Industry

This episode of Rewired looks at five major takeaways from the Clean Power Plan.

Julia Pyper September 11, 2015

Julia Pyper

Senior Editor
Greentech Media

Julia Pyper is a Senior Editor at Greentech Media covering the energy transition. She is also the host and producer of the Political Climate podcast. She previously reported for E&E Publishing, and has covered clean energy and climate change issues across the U.S. and abroad, including in India, Haiti, Israel and the Maldives. She holds degrees from McGill and Columbia Universities. Find her on Twitter @JMPyper.

On August 3, President Obama unveiled the Clean Power Plan, calling it “the most important step America has taken in the fight against global climate change.”

The rule calls for a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants by 2030, compared to emissions levels in 2005. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also gave each state its own carbon reduction goal, based on the region's energy mix and current emissions levels.

The rule has been both praised and criticized from all sides of the climate policy debate. But what does it mean for cleantech businesses? How much will it boost activity?

In this episode of Rewired, we discuss five major takeaways from the Clean Power Plan with Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy and government affairs at Advanced Energy Economy.