This morning President Barack Obama announced his new climate change strategy, which includes cutting carbon dioxide emissions, regulating carbon emissions at existing coal plants, and increasing appliance efficiency. Mayor Mike McGinn released a statement supporting Obama's strategy, but thinks the plan doesn't go far enough.

"I also hope that [Obama's] plan is just a first step," Said McGinn in a press release. "All of the incremental gains we’re making as a country... could all be wiped away by exporting coal from the Powder River Basin to Asia. It could all be washed over if we build the Keystone XL pipeline."

Obama gave a somewhat vague statement on the controversial Alberta to Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline, saying Keystone XL should only be approved if it will not increase overall greenhouse gas emissions.

On a fun side note, the process of extracting oil from the Alberta tar sands—the oil that Keystone XL would carry—is very expensive, complex and damaging to the environment.

McGinn then called for an analysis on the effects coal exports would have on the environment.