February 4, 2013

Changing the Climate Change Conversation

Rohit Aggarwala, Bloomberg


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Politically, environmentalism has had a few good months in the U.S. Hurricane Sandy put the words “climate change” back in the national vocabulary. Republican attempts to attack Democrats for waging a “war on coal” failed to win many votes in states like Virginia and Ohio on Election Day. In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama made climate action a priority. A climate rally in Washington is being planned for later this month, and the president has committed to conducting a “national conversation” on the subject. . .

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TAGGED: global warming, climate change, Politics, U.S. environmental policy

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