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<title><![CDATA[Rebecca Leber - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29359.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Rebecca Leber]]></description><category domain="29359">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Weird Turn Against Corporate Social Responsibility]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2022/12/10/23496712/esg-gop-climate-corporate-responsibility</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Companies say they want to acknowledge environmental impacts. Republicans are mad about that.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Democrats' Big New Bill Would Actually Do]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23282217/climate-bill-health-care-drugs-inflation-reduction-act</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The climate bill is also a health care bill (and it does a few things on taxes, too).]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Myths About Gas Prices]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/23169692/myths-gas-prices-inflation</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gas prices are still climbing, and President Joe Biden has nothing but bad options.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Gas Prices Do--and Don't--Tell Us About the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2022/6/17/23169695/record-high-gas-prices-economy-impact</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gasoline is the only product in modern-day America whose price is listed on giant signs almost everywhere you go. Most people, even if they don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t drive, probably have a pretty good sense of what gas costs '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' currently averaging'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' $5'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a gallon nationwide.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How High Can Gas Prices Go?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2022/3/10/22967368/oil-gas-prices-russia-ukraine-war-biden-sanctions</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US ban on Russian imports has a modest effect, but what comes next matters more.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Can't Solve Its Gas Price Problem With Drilling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22959903/russia-ukraine-oil-gas-price-europe-us-exports-climate-change</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The four myths Republicans have been spreading about oil and gas prices, explained.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Climate Change Movement Can Level Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22846697/climate-change-activism-joe-manchin-protest-build-back-better-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The high-risk, high-reward stakes of building a more radical movement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Closer Than Ever to Progress on Climate Change Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22685920/democrats-infrastructure-build-back-better-climate-change</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats might never get another opportunity like this. The global climate certainly won't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Freak Out About Methane Emissions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22613532/climate-change-methane-emissions</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This lesser-known greenhouse gas will make or break a]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Oil Industry Should Be Worried After Day of Reckoning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22455347/exxon-board-shell-oil-news-chevron-engine-no-one</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exxon, Shell, and Chevron are under siege in the courtroom and the boardroom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Could Actually Deliver on Climate Change Goals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22398456/biden-climate-change-goals-industry-buildings-agriculture</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The road to the 2030 goal is clear. The road to 2050 is a little murkier.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Is Finally Having a Political Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/climate-change-is-finally-having-a-political-moment-thats-no-accident/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Sunrise Movement is sick of waiting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[EPA's Silent, Guilty Role in the Flint Water Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/128156/epas-silent-guilty-role-flint-water-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in recent weeks has come under intense pressure over the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, which was precipitated two years ago when his administration, in an effort to cut costs, changed the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s water supply from Lake Huron to the River Flint. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has President Obama Broken the Stalemate on Guns?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/127246/president-obama-broken-political-stalemate-guns</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, for the first time since he rolled out his plan to expand background checks for guns, President Barack Obama publicly faced his critics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'some of them, that is. His audience of several dozen at a CNN-hosted town hall included a mother and rape survivor, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Planet's Worst Nightmare: A Republican White House]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/124328/planets-worst-nightmare-republican-white-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the second Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton deflected a question about her electability with an observation that could apply to pretty much any issue in the presidential race. She noted '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'there are some differences among'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the Democratic candidates, but those differences...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Environmental Case for a Clinton Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/123557/the-environmental-case-for-a-clinton-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton secured the endorsement of a major environmental group this week, when the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund endorsed her'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the right person for the job.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' LCV'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s support carries significant weight in the environmental community, but the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Secures His Environmental Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123366/obama-rejects-keystone-xl-pipeline-and-secures-his-legacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s environmental legacy will be remembered for its series of firsts. He is the first president to limit carbon pollution from power plants, curb methane emissions, and broker a climate deal with China. But none of these achievements ever captured the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Plan to Save the World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123223/plan-save-world</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Already, the effects of climate change are clear and significant. Last year was the hottest in recorded history, and it's all but certain that 2015 will set a new record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Wildfires in the West this year have consumed a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet the 97 Percent Climate Truthers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123135/meet-97-percent-climate-truthers</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[wo years ago, a group of international researchers led by University of Queensland's John Cook'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' surveyed 12,000 abstracts of peer-reviewed papers on climate change since the 1990s. Out of the 4,000 papers that took a position one way or another on the causes of global warming,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 97...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Officially Enters Prime-Time Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123112/its-wonderful-watch-democrats-compete-over-climate-change</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Climate change has officially entered prime-time politics. In the initial moments of this year's first Democratic presidential primary debate, four of the five candidates raised the issue in theiropening statements'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a stark contrast not only to the Republican candidates, who hardly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's AK Trip a 'Mission Accomplished' Moment?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122676/obamas-alaska-trip-his-mission-accomplished-moment-climate</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's historic Alaska trip this week, part of his ongoing efforts to highlight the devastating effects of climate change, will take him further north than any sitting president has traveled before. While there, he will speak at a conference of arctic nations, visit the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Deniers Say Nope to 'Red Pope']]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122052/climate-deniers-say-nope-red-pope</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Climate change deniers never needed to know exactly what Pope Francis would say in his highly anticipated encyclical on the environment and climate change, which isn't released officially until Thursday. It was never about the content of Francis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' document, which were a mystery until...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jeb Bush, Climate-Change Equivocator]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122031/jeb-bush-climate-change-equivocator</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been unofficially campaigning for president for months, even years, but once he makes it official Monday he might break a few conservative hearts that pine for a GOP candidate who isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a climate change denier.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are GOP Long Shots Thinking?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121911/what-2016-republican-long-shot-candidates-are-thinking</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The list of Republican presidential candidates seems to be getting longer by the day. On Wednesday, Rick Santorum entered the race, and on Thursday, former New York Governor George Pataki is expected to do the same. Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Clinton Can Make Voters Care About Climate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121553/clinton-messages-climate-national-security-and-economic-issue</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conventional political wisdom often says climate change is a bottom-tier issue for voters. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It is very difficult to find an issue that voters place lower on the list than climate change,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' GOP pollster Whit Ayres told the New York Times last fall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Isn't a Belief. It's Fact]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121263/climate-change-isnt-belief-religion-its-scientific-fact</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy made little impression on Republican senators at an Environment and Public Works hearing, where she said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Climate change is not a religion. It is not a belief system. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a science fact.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' She would have been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Denier Inhofe Is a Godsend to Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121200/inhofes-snowball-proves-gop-ignorance-climate-change-causes</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, Republican James Inhofe, the chairman of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, held a snowball on the Senate floor to prove that it is cold outside in Washington, D.C. Inhofe took that to mean climate change science is "hysteria," because global warming...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Keystone Debate Is Really About]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120922/keystone-xl-senate-bill-amendments-influenced-koch-brothers</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ask progressives what the last three weeks of Senate debate on a Keystone XL bill was really about, and they might mention the Koch brothers. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Republican's Keystone XL obsession is about one thing and one thing only'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a direct payback to Big Oil, specifically to the Koch...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reminder: Weather &amp; Climate Are Different]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120860/conservatives-confuse-climate-weather</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Weather forecasters predicted a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'historic" blizzard would dump up to three feet of snow on New York City. Instead, the city escaped the worst of the storm. The National Weather Service admitted Tuesday it was off due to the challenging nature of winter-storm weather prediction: "Our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama vs. Climate Change: Round Two]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120770/obama-epa-target-methane-emissions-oil-and-gas-sector</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Leber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, the Obama administration proposed the country's first-ever regulations on carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, an important step in tackling the largest sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Now comes the second big stage of President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s climate...]]></description>
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