Victoria should be doing more to cut carbon emissions: The Age

It may not be apparent yet, but the most important and enduring legacy of President Barack Obama's two terms in the White House may prove to be the Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The plan gives teeth to the United States' promise of compliance with globally agreed temperature targets, set two months ago at the UN climate change talks in Paris.

The plan hinges on having the US Environmental Protection Agency require states to curb coal-fired power stations' carbon-dioxide emissions. But it is on ice following an unexpected order of the US Supreme Court last week. The court has, for now, barred the EPA from implementing the new rule pending legal challenges in lower courts.

Read the Editorial from today’s Melbourne Age - “Climate change: Victoria should be doing more to cut emissions.”