Last week, President Obama presented his Climate Action Plan. The plan sets out 1) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon; 2) to prepare the U.S. for the impacts of climate change; and 3) to lead international efforts to avert global warming. Renewable energy forms a crucial component of President Obama's climate action plan. And its growth, despite fickle funding for it, has been exponential. As President Obama outlined in his climate speech, "Over the past four years, we've doubled the electricity that we generate from zero-carbon wind and solar power." He continued, "jobs installing the solar panels that now generate more than four times the power at less cost than just a...
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