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Martin O'Malley Just Set Extremely High Bar Climate Change 2016 Democratic Contenders
2015-06-18 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland and a contender to be the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, called on Thursday for a phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050, citing the "moral obligation" to address climate change. In an op-ed published in USA Today, O'Malley, who is Catholic, called the encyclical Pope Francis issued on Thursday on climate change a "clarion call for action." O'Malley's piece also publicly rebuked some of the Obama administration's energy policies and promised...
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