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Argumentative Essay: Obama's Clean Power Plan

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Obama’s Clean Power Plan is the “biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken to fight climate change”. Climate change is a huge problem; we can see it and we can feel it, hotter summers, rising seas, stronger storms, deeper droughts, and longer wildlife seasons. With all the smog and carbon in the air, asthma rates are up more than 50%. You would believe everyone would be on board with this plan to reverse these problems, but there are people against it. According to them the plan will hurt the economy, but these problems cannot keep us from turning away from this solution to climate change.
In the end what really happens? What happens in the future? In the end the economy won’t be affected, nothing would happen to our energy security or

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