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Posted Fri May 15 2009: from London Guardian:
Barack Obama's climate change bill is weakened, but still intact http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1242418826
Barack Obama's plans to move America towards a cleaner energy economy have survived – but not unscathed. Democratic leaders in Congress said late yesterday they were confident of getting enough support from about a dozen Democratic hold-outs – conservatives, and members from oil and coal producing states – to move forward on a climate change bill. But the ambitious global warming and energy agenda introduced to Congress six weeks ago, has been weakened in a number of key areas by the compromises with the Democratic hold-outs... and it now seems clear that the US will come nowhere close to European targets...
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Always lagging behind the Europeans... Sheesh!

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