Ask an Administration official what to expect legislatively this year and the answer will probably fall along these lines: reregulation of the financial markets, followed by the budget, health care and then green jobs. It is a massive agenda for President Barack Obama’s first year in office, and already some in the environmental community are worried that their agenda will be sacrificed. Global-warming issues face particularly tough obstacles, especially at a time when the prophets of other crises proclaim more-imminent doomsdays. Obama, says Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, “is taking on an awful lot of sacred cows all at once, and these are cows that have sharp teeth and are going to bite back.” (What exactly is a green-collar job?) (link)
Time: Is Obama’s Environmental Agenda Losing Out?
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