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Obama's Climate: Candidate Says He'd Push Hard to Curb Carbon

Posted on August 26, 2008

Tough talk, tougher choices (AP)Senator Barack Obama really wants to tackle climate change, of course. Thats such a big issue, its running neck-and-neck with health care at the top of the Democratic economic agenda. And Senator Edward Kennedy barely mentioned climate change in his teary convention speech, unlike health care. (Our colleagues at the Health Blog tackle that issue here.)The usual problem is that expensive, broad-reaching programs like that tend to get bogged down on the Hill. But President Obama would act on the climate with or without the help of Congress, apparently. From todays...

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