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By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Friday, March 15, 2013 23:15 EDT
Barack Obama’s grand vision of action on climate change shrank to $200m a year to fund research into clean fuel cars, with signs of retreat on the big environmental issues of the day.
Friday’s initiative – hyped in advance by the White House – marked the first move by Obama to make good on the stirring promises of climate action offered in his inaugural speech and state of the union address.
But on the most immediate environmental decision in his in-tray — the future of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project – White House officials indicated on Friday that Obama’s green and liberal supporters would be in for a disappointment. Officials signalled that the president was inclined to approve the project.
Meanwhile, there were signs that the Environmental Protection Agency was retreating on a move to curb carbon emissions from new coal-fired power plants.
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forestpath
(3,102 posts)He always planned to approve it.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)This has me enraged. Can anyone suggest the best place to let our feelings known to him?
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Had enough yet, America?
Do we understand yet what is really happening here?
The use of the word "retreat," as though he ever wanted any other outcome, is just insulting at this point. Every single one of these corporate sellouts is as predictable as sunset.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)on what date he'll change his party affiliation.
Can someone point me to a Dem issue that he's actually defended?
JEB
(4,748 posts)One hand distracts the other is picking your pocket and old but still effective gambit. edit to add...Closer to the truth than 11 dimensional chess.
