Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
September 2008

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

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