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Obama Retreats From Goal of Cap-Trade Bill
Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Williamson, February 3, 2010
President Barack Obama said for the first time Tuesday that legislation that would require industries to pay for emissions of greenhouse gases may need to be separated from a more popular “green jobs” bill in the Senate, a maneuver that could kill what once had been one of the administration’s top policy priorities. Read More.
Obama budget omits cap-and-trade revenues-official
Reuters, Jeff Mason, February 1, 2010
The White House has dropped projected revenues from a “cap-and-trade” mechanism to fight climate change from its new budget, an administration official said, bowing to the possibility that the U.S. Congress may not pass it. Â Read more.
State Of The Union: Climate Change Takes A Back Seat
Treehugger.com, by Pablo Paster, January 27, 2009
President Obama’s first State of the Union speech highlighted many of our current challenges, but focused primarily on jobs, the economy and health care. Notably absent were visionary plans to tackle climate change in a meaningful way. Has climate change been drowned by the rising seas of economic concerns? melted by debates over health care? Read More.
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