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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"White House to get aggressive on climate change?"
White House to get aggressive on climate change?By Greg Sargent at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/18/white-house-to-get-aggressive-on-climate-change/
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Republicans are rightly outraged this morning because new White House counsel0r John Podesta compared the GOP to a cult worthy of Jonestown in an interview earlier this fall that Politico published today. Podesta has since apologized.
Beyond this flap, there is some important news in the piece about Podesta: He agreed to the job on the condition that he be allowed to oversee an aggressive climate change agenda via executive action.
As Politicos Glenn Thrush reports:
The deal-sealer for Podesta, who has vowed to stay for only a year, was Obamas assurance that he would be given broad oversight of the administrations climate change agenda even though Podesta has agreed to recuse himself from the decision on the Keystone pipeline, which he opposes. And here is where the template for Podesta in action might first become apparent: With chances of major legislation on climate change all but dead given congressional opposition, Podesta will push for aggressive executive action, in addition to backstopping new Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy on controversial new emissions guidelines for power plants.
Moreover, he is almost certain to side with environmentalists over energy companies, as he did during the Clinton administration when he teamed with Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to protect vast new tracts of national forest and wetlands from gas and oil exploration.
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"White House to get aggressive on climate change?" (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2013
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Aggressive on climate change=MORE CLIMATE CHANGE!!! EAT WHIRLED PEAS, MOTHERFUCKERS!
TheKentuckian
Dec 2013
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hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)1. Link?
Thanks.
applegrove
(118,845 posts)2. Thanks. Done
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)3. I just finished watching Promised Land....
God, it's depressing. Corporations won't be happy until they've screwed up the entire country and eventually the world. If someone doesn't do something really soon, it will be too late. It probably already is. It's way past time for someone to get aggressive about climate change.
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TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)5. Aggressive on climate change=MORE CLIMATE CHANGE!!! EAT WHIRLED PEAS, MOTHERFUCKERS!