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Can Obama tackle climate change in his second term?
2013-01-21 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A week after he won the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama addressed a gathering of governors and other officials in Los Angeles, assuring them that global warming would be a top priority for his first term. "Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all," he said. "Delay is not an option." His goal at the time? An ambitious plan to cut America`s heat-trapping greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and invest $150 billion in new clean-energy and efficiency technologies...
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Inauguration 2013: Obama calls immigration, climate change key second-term issues
2013-01-21 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Declaring "our journey is not complete," President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday, urging the nation to set an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens and protect the social safety net that has sheltered the poor, elderly and needy. "Our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it," Obama said in his relatively brief, 18-minute...
Obama to confront oil pipeline, climate change
2013-01-17 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's second-term energy agenda is taking shape and, despite the departure of key Cabinet officials, it looks a lot like the first: more reliance on renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, and expanded production of oil and natural gas. Obama also is promising to address climate change, an issue he has acknowledged was sometimes overlooked during his first term. ''The president has been clear that tackling climate change and enhancing energy security will be among...
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Obama On Climate Change Faces High Expectations, And High Hurdles, In Second Term
2013-01-17 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On the night of his re-election, President Barack Obama described grand ambitions for his second term, including a desire to bequeath to future generations a nation not only free of debt and unencumbered by inequality, but also one "that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet." The laws of both physics and politics suggest he'll have his work cut out for him, and his second-term success will surely be measured on far more concrete terms. The president, after all, faces several...
Guns, Debt and Climate Change Give Obama Shot at Immortality
2013-01-09 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: Gun violence, climate change, and $16 trillion in U.S. debt are life-and-death crises that give President Obama the opportunity to become a truly transformational president. Pity his legacy if Obama fails, or fails to try. Today's headlines reflect the high risk and reward of striving: Vice President Joe Biden is meeting with the gun-rights lobby in the quest for a post-Newtown solution to American-on-American massacres; 2012 was the hottest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States;...
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