If the Republican Party wants to win the White House in 2016, it should take climate change seriously. …
In a poll conducted this spring by me and my colleagues at Yale and George Mason universities, 70% of Americans support placing strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions at existing coal-fired power plants. We also found that 75% of adults, including 63% of Republicans, support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. And yet Republicans have been making the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan their latest punching bag.
That may help primary candidates, but it will cost the GOP in the general election. CONT.
Edward Maibach (George Mason U.), Los Angeles Times