President Barack Obama on Friday will trumpet new executive actions and public- and private-sector commitments aimed at cutting carbon pollution and improving energy efficiency as he continues to make the pitch that the impacts of climate change must be addressed. In a speech in California, the president will focus on clean-energy objectives he can accomplish without Congress’s help, laying out a list of modest proposals, as well as pledges to expand the deployment of solar power. The initiatives are wide-ranging but small-bore—from training workers for jobs in the solar industry to strengthening commercial energy building codes and from making federal buildings more energy efficient to setting new efficiency standards for walk-in coolers and freezers. But administration officials argue that cumulatively, the efforts could have a significant impact. Dan Utech, special assistant to the president on energy and climate change, said the initiatives would help cut pollution, save businesses money […]