Philip Bump:
With airplanes flying over regularly, and sweat dripping from his brow, the president unveiled the most ambitious climate change plan in American history today in a speech at Georgetown University. The biggest unexpected news: among his proposals, detailed here, the president set a critical emissions measure for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Obama’s rhetoric was typically powerful. “As a president, as a father, and as an American, I am here to say: We need to act.”