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Despite divisive rhetoric, Obama's pipeline decision might not be a political game changer
2013-03-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
E and E: Recent signals from the White House suggest President Obama could end more than four years of wrangling over the Keystone XL pipeline as early as this summer. But while issuing permits for the project would be a consequential event, its political implications might be surprisingly few. A decision by Obama to grant TransCanada Corp. a permit for the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline, an anticipated action given the favorable environmental review the State Department issued last week, would be guaranteed...
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On immigration and climate change, Obama's rhetoric won't do much good
2013-02-12 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: By any measure, President Obama has begun his second term with an ambitious agenda: comprehensive immigration reform, a new assault weapons ban, universal background checks, and even possible measures on climate change and voting rights. In all likelihood, hell discuss each of these in tonights State of the Union. But -- insofar that he wants to make progress -- he might be better served by staying quiet. Todays poll from the Washington Post and Capital Insight shows something interesting: When...
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Obama will not match climate rhetoric
2013-02-07 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change will not be a top issue in the United States under President Barack Obama, despite the soaring rhetoric in his Inaugural Address last month. Past failure to pass sweeping U.S. climate legislation will probably instead see his administration target modest, discrete, broadly popular measures on efficiency, fuel economy and long-term tax breaks for renewable energy. "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray...
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Rhetoric easy, action harder for Obama on climate change
2013-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: One aspect of Barack Obama's inaugural address has attracted more attention than others: his pledge to act on climate change. After an election campaign where the issue barely rated a mention and a first term where he failed to get a cap-and-trade bill through Congress, the US president seemed to signal it would be a focus of his second term in office. North America correspondent Jane Cowan: JANE COWAN: Twenty-four hours after the president seemed to inject new urgency, the...
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