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Obama entered his first presidential term promising action on climate change, but the main climate bill disintegrated. What can be done during his second term?

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Figure 1: US greenhouse gas emissions by sector (2010 data) and the corresponding federal authorities that could act to reduce the sector's emissions without congressional approval.
Figure 2: Crunch time 2007.

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