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obama and emission cuts

President Obama is planning to be in Copenhagen for COP15 and says, from the NYTimes article, that the US will achieve 17% reductions from 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% decrease by 2050.  Is this enough? Any president can claim cuts and reductions but the change will come from congress ratifying a bill with these included. It’s currently being stalled in the senate.   read more

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