Environmentalists Put Heat on Obama
Posted on AllSides January 10th, 2013
From The Center
The U.S.'s temperature record for 2012, after a year of extreme weather, is increasing pressure from some scientists and environmentalists on President Barack Obama to take further steps to curb the emissions they say contribute to climate change.
But congressional opposition and a sputtering economy all but rule out the prospect of sweeping legislation, leaving regulation as the most likely way the administration could try to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
Government data this week on the 2012 record high average temperature in the lower 48 states came as global emissions of...
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