The President: Our climate is changing.

It's changing in ways that threaten our economy,

our security, and our health.

This isn't opinion; it's fact, backed up by

decades of carefully collected data and

overwhelming scientific consensus.

And it has serious implications for the

way that we live now.

We can see it and we can feel it: hotter summers;

rising sea levels; extreme weather events like stronger

storms, deeper droughts, and longer wildfire seasons.

All disasters that are becoming more frequent,

more expensive, and more dangerous.

Our own families experience it too.

Over the past three decades, asthma rates

have more than doubled.

And as temperatures keep warming, and smog gets

worse, those Americans will be at even greater risk of

landing in the hospital.

Climate change is not a problem for another generation.

Not anymore.

That's why, on Monday, my administration will release

the final version of America's Clean Power Plan:

the biggest, most important step we've ever taken to

combat climate change.

Power plants are the single biggest source of the

harmful carbon pollution that contributes

to climate change.

But until now there have been no federal limits

to the amount of that pollution those plants

can dump into the air.

Think about that.

We limit the amount of toxic chemicals, like mercury and

sulphur and arsenic, in our air and water,

and we're better off for it.

But existing power plants can still dump unlimited

amounts of harmful carbon pollution into

the air we breathe.

For the sake of our kids, for the health and safety

of all Americans, that's about to change.

We've been working with states and power companies

to make sure they've got the flexibility they need to cut

this pollution, all the while lowering energy bills,

ensuring reliable service, and paving the way for new

job-creating innovations that help America

lead the world forward.

If you believe, like I do, that we can't condemn our

kids and grandkids to a planet that's beyond fixing,

then I'm asking you to share this message with your

friends and family.

Push your own communities to adopt smarter,

more sustainable practices.

Remind everyone who represents you that

protecting the world we leave to our children

is a prerequisite for your vote.

Join us.

We can do this.

It's time for America and the world to act

on climate change.