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Obama prepared for the post-oil
The spill "will push us to rethink our energy and environmental policy," said Barack Obama last June 14 during his fourth visit to the polluted beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. "We remain the largest importers of oil, or we can make the investments that we would become the world's leading exporter of renewable energy." This sentence, Bush had decided long before the "September 11 ecological. It is dated March 19, 2009. For when he took office, the successor of George W. Bush's climate and the "transition energy" one of its priorities.Giving due to 32 oil companies that had filed an appeal, a judge in Louisiana quashed yesterday, this moratorium. The White House immediately announced its intention to appeal.
The Democratic majority hopes tying a new version of the bill by the month of July. The text, in its latest release, provides a carbon market to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from industry and, among other provisions, the nuclear revival.
No matter that the oil spill as an excuse to create an energy tax, has won Sunday's Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, where every vote counts.
Barack Obama is still riding the wave sticky to push his advantage. It should meet on Wednesday a group of Senate Republicans and Democrats to seek a compromise on the new law.Without waiting for Congress, the Administration Obama has already made progress in diversifying its energy sources.
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