Obama: I should have acted sooner on climate change

President Obama says he should have "moved faster to a nonlegislative strategy" to address climate change after Congress killed cap-and-trade legislation in 2009.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Obama criticized "folks like John McCain," who he said once backed cap-and-T

“I think the biggest problem we had was folks like John McCain, who had come out in favor of a cap-and-trade system, getting caught up in a feverish opposition to anything I proposed and reversing themselves — which meant that getting the numbers that we needed was going to be too difficult,” the president said in the interview published Wednesday.

That opposition led Obama to enact a slew of controversial regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The interview was conducted in early September during Obama’s trip to Alaska, which was intended to highlight the effects of global warming.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/254770-obama-i-should-have-acted-sooner-on-climate-change
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obama-takes-on-climate-change-the-rolling-stone-interview-20150923#ixzz3mfFylwE9