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Arctic drilling approval threatens Obama climate legacy
2015-08-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The Obama administration's final approval of Royal Dutch Shell's drilling for oil in Alaska's Chukchi Sea provoked an angry reaction on Monday from environmentalists who had come to consider President Obama a champion in the fight against climate change. The decision comes two weeks after the release of the United States' most aggressive attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions, known as the Clean Power Plan, and just days after Obama announced he will visit Alaska later this month to highlight...
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