President Obama declared his new carbon plan “the single most important step” the country can take to fight global climate change as he tried Monday to anticipate and rebut arguments from critics about harm his vision could do to American business.
Speaking in personal terms about his days at Occidental College in Los Angeles more than three decades ago, Obama recalled the smog that made it hard to breathe when he went out for a run and the people who had to stay inside on especially bad days.
“You fast-forward 30, 40 years later, and we solved those problems,” he said.