7
Dec

Copenhagen climate summit: Barack Obama given power to cut greenhouse gases

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The news dramatically improves the prospects of reaching a new agreement to combat global warming at the climate summit which opened in Copenhagen on Monday.

His administration formally declared that the gases “endanger the public health and welfare of the America people” empowering its Environment Protection Agency to regulate them across the country under the country’s Clean Air Act, without having to get a hotly-contested climate bill through the US Congress.

Full story:Telegraph | Discuss: here

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Category : Cap-and-trade, Copenhagen

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