President Obama's second term will likely be more audacious than his first. In the President's own words, "the best is yet to come." In his first term, President Obama laid down stricter fuel economy standards and through the EPA more stringent requirements for coal plants. In his
victory speech the President said, “We want our kids to grow up in an America… that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.”
Now that the President's environmental achievements from the first term are safe, we can expect more from the President in his second term. Optimism springs from the fact that the President does not have to face another election which frees him to undertake bolder action on the environment, climate change and clean energy.
Here are eight things the President can support to show leadership on the environment:
