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January 17, 2013

Obama Faces High Expectations on Climate

Tom Zeller Jr., Huffington Post


Huffington Post

On the night of his re-election, President Barack Obama described grand ambitions for his second term, including a desire to bequeath to future generations a nation not only free of debt and unencumbered by inequality, but also one "that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."

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