The U.S. Climate Policy Debate: How Climate Politics are Moving Forward on Capitol Hill and in the White House

Author(s): Tim Profeta

Published: September 2008

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The Bush administration’s waning days in office herald a likely new approach in U.S. climate policy. Both major candidates in the upcoming presidential election—Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain—have publically embraced approaches to the issue which dramatically differ from the resistance to greenhouse gas regulation that has been espoused by President Bush over the last eight years. Accordingly, while no major climate legislation will likely emerge from Congress before next year at the earliest, the climate debate in the United States is changing.