"White House to get aggressive on climate change?"

[applegrove]

White House to get aggressive on climate change?

By Greg Sargent at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/18/white-house-to-get-aggressive-on-climate-change/


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Republicans are rightly outraged this morning because new White House counsel0r John Podesta compared the GOP to a “cult worthy of Jonestown” in an interview earlier this fall that Politico published today. Podesta has since apologized.

Beyond this flap, there is some important news in the piece about Podesta: He agreed to the job on the condition that he be allowed to oversee an aggressive climate change agenda via executive action.

As Politico’s Glenn Thrush reports:


The deal-sealer for Podesta, who has vowed to stay for only a year, was Obama’s assurance that he would be given broad oversight of the administration’s climate change agenda — even though Podesta has agreed to recuse himself from the decision on the Keystone pipeline, which he opposes. And here is where the template for Podesta in action might first become apparent: With chances of major legislation on climate change all but dead given congressional opposition, Podesta will push for aggressive executive action, in addition to backstopping new Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy on controversial new emissions guidelines for power plants.

Moreover, he is almost certain to side with environmentalists over energy companies, as he did during the Clinton administration when he teamed with Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to protect vast new tracts of national forest and wetlands from gas and oil exploration.





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[hedda_foil]

1. Link?

Thanks.

[applegrove]

2. Thanks. Done

[ohheckyeah]

3. I just finished watching Promised Land....

God, it's depressing. Corporations won't be happy until they've screwed up the entire country and eventually the world. If someone doesn't do something really soon, it will be too late. It probably already is. It's way past time for someone to get aggressive about climate change.

[TheKentuckian]

5. Aggressive on climate change=MORE CLIMATE CHANGE!!! EAT WHIRLED PEAS, MOTHERFUCKERS!