Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
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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, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, have publically embraced approaches to the issue which dramatically differ from the resistence 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.