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G.O.P. Sees Opportunity for Election Gains in Obama’s Climate Change Policy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/politics/gop-sees-opportunity-for-election-gains-in-obamas-climate-change-policy.html

Shawn Poynter for The New York Times

The coal-fired Big Sandy Power Plant in Kentucky, which is one of the states where energy issues are expected to loom large in the 2014 elections.

By TRIP GABRIEL

Published: July 1, 2013

When President Obama announced strong measures to combat climate change last week, environmentalists who felt he had long soft-pedaled the issue for political reasons rejoiced.

Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press

Asked about the impact of President Obama’s actions on his own re-election prospects next year, Representative Nick J. Rahall II, Democrat of West Virginia, said, “They don’t help.”

But many Republicans were just as gleeful — in the belief they had been handed a powerful issue to use against Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections in energy-rich states from Texas to Minnesota.

Elected officials and political analysts said the president’s crackdown on coal, the leading source of industrial greenhouse gases, could have consequences for Senate seats being vacated by retiring Democrats in West Virginia and South Dakota, for shaky Democratic incumbents like Mary L. Landrieu of energy-rich Louisiana, and for the Democratic challenger of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader.

In ordering limits for the first time on carbon dioxide emissions from up-and-running power plants, Mr. Obama jabbed that opponents belonged to “the Flat Earth Society.” But in coal country, it was Mr. Obama who was called out of touch, with predictions of job losses and spiking energy bills…..(read more).

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Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

Egypt’s farmers facing hardship during crisis

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Building Soil with Penny Livingston-Stark

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Widespread destruction caused by India floods

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Plant of Discord: India’s nuclear energy program sees green anger

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Energy from Space 2.0 AND June 30, 2013 NEWS

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Published on Jun 30, 2013

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Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120