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Published 12/8/2008 by Juliet Eilperin at Wash Post In Congress
Barack Obama's pledge to make the United States a leader in confronting global warming raised hopes that his election would rapidly end the long impasse in international negotiations over climate change, but the timing of the presidential transition has severely dimmed those expectations as the c...
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