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...force it to regulate greenhouse gases. The Bush Administration largely ignored the implications of that decision for the next two years, likely in part because of complaints from industry that regulating CO2 would be expensive and maddeningly complicated. That's a point well taken. Something needs to be done to slow the rise in U.S. carbon emissions, but while in the absence of a national carbon-cap law federal regulation may be our only short-term option, it's not the best-case scenario. "It's a backup plan," says Doniger. (Watch a video about the next big biofuel...
...using a law that was drafted before climate change was a known threat. Instead, they see federal regulations as a protective stopgap measure until Congress can pass national carbon cap-and-trade legislation specifically tailored to global warming. "It's not going to be easy, but it can be done," says Doniger. Since the only thing that coal-industry executives and other fossil-fuel peddlers fear more than a carbon cap is EPA regulation, he might just be right...
...night, that officially ended our experiment with sipping from the waters of the Potomac," he continued, referring to the Obama team's determination not to be sucked into old Washington ways. "I, for one, don't want to look back four years from now and think, We should have done this differently." (See pictures of and read about President Obama's White House staff...
...When Gibbs said the President was done drinking from the Potomac, an aide recalls, the message was received as if it had come from Obama himself, given the frequency with which the two men talk. Gibbs and Obama have developed what Pete Rouse, another top aide, calls a "back-and-forth, locker-room camaraderie" that includes occasional heated arguments with raised voices. "Robert will never pull his punches with the President," says Rouse. They tease each other frequently: asked by Jarrett to describe Gibbs' sense of humor for Time, Obama deadpanned, "Robert is very funny, but I can't remember...
This clarion statement of international sanity had a curious effect on its audience: stunned silence, as the assembled Europeans and Russians were confronted with a terrifying new reality. They were out of excuses, especially our NATO allies. If the U.S. was done with thoughtless bellicosity, the peaceable Euros might have to respond more substantively to our requests for them to live up to their pledges in Afghanistan. This seemed the underlying tension in Munich - the split between countries whose troops actually fight in Afghanistan and those whose troops do not. It is a breach to watch, one that could cripple...