Obama Lays Out Proposals on Cutting Carbon Pollution

President Barack Obama on Friday trumpeted new executive actions and public- and private-sector commitments aimed at cutting carbon pollution and improving energy efficiency as he continues to make the pitch that the impacts of climate change must be addressed.

In a speech in California, the president focused on clean-energy objectives he can accomplish without Congress's help, laying out a list of modest proposals, as well as pledges to expand the deployment of solar power.

The initiatives are wide-ranging but small-bore—from training workers for jobs in the solar industry to strengthening commercial energy building codes and from making federal buildings more energy efficient to setting new efficiency standards for walk-in coolers and freezers.  But administration officials argue that cumulatively, the efforts could have a significant impact.

Obama Lays Out Proposals on Cutting Carbon Pollution