How Obama Might Find A Way To Limit Carbon Emissions In His Second Term

How Obama Could Take Action On Climate Change After All
US President Barack Obama speaks joined by emergency responders in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus February 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama spoke about the upcoming spending cuts know as the sequester to go into effect next month if the Congress and Obama administration can not agree on federal spending. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama speaks joined by emergency responders in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus February 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama spoke about the upcoming spending cuts know as the sequester to go into effect next month if the Congress and Obama administration can not agree on federal spending. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

In the US, the climate is changing on climate change.

Though President Barack Obama lavished attention on climate change in both his inaugural address and State of the Union speech, he still has little chance of getting Congress to pass a law limiting carbon emissions. But he could achieve the same goal using regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he is now in a better position to withstand--and even welcome--the confrontation with the energy industry this would entail, thanks to both economic and political shifts.

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