Guardian: Barack Obama's grand vision of action on climate change shrank to $200m a year to fund research into clean fuel cars, with signs of retreat on the big environmental issues of the day.
Friday's initiative hyped in advance by the White House marked the first move by Obama to make good on the stirring promises of climate action offered in his inaugural speech and state of the union address.
But on the most immediate environmental decision in his in-tray -- the future of the controversial Keystone...