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GOP Sees Opportunity for Election Gains in Obama's Climate Change Policy
2013-07-02 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When President Obama announced strong measures to combat climate change last week, environmentalists who felt he had long soft-pedaled the issue for political reasons rejoiced. But many Republicans were just as gleeful in the belief they had been handed a powerful issue to use against Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections in energy-rich states from Texas to Minnesota. Elected officials and political analysts said the presidents crackdown on coal, the leading source of industrial greenhouse...
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