November 9, 2012

What Obama's Victory Means for the Earth

Tom Schueneman, Energy Collective


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We narrowly dodged a bullet in the 2012 presidential election. Americans were presented with the choice between Mitt Romney’s fossil fuel reliant 19th century view of energy and Barack Obama’s cleaner 21st century low carbon vision.

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