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Climate bills shifted to back burner yet again

Source: Venture Beat
Los Angeles : CA : USA | about 1 month ago  
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President Barack Obama may be fresh off his Nobel Peace Prize win, but won’t get him any closer to passing the climate legislation he hoped to push through — along with the health care reform package — by the end of the 2009. Congressional aides are now saying that Senate votes on the...
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