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Obama proposes $1 billion climate protection fund
2014-02-14 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama will Friday propose a $1 billion dollar fund to mitigate the impact of climate change, as he inspects farmland parched by drought in California. He will propose the investment in his 2015 budget that will be released next month -- though it is unclear whether the fund has much prospect of advancing past Republicans on Capitol Hill. "We've always had heat waves, but now the worst ones are longer, and they're hotter," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "We've always...
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