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On election day, Republican strategist Karl Rove may have let more truth slip than he's typically comfortable with. At a conference for shale gas drilling companies, he gave a speech about how the incoming Congress "sure as heck" won't pass legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. "Climate is gone," he said. It very well may be, Mr. Rove, if you get your way.
Rove was of course referring to the American Clean Energy and Security Act, passed in the House of Representatives, and its counterpart, which stalled and was eventually aborted in the Senate. He means that efforts to place a limit on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions corporations can let into the atmosphere are gone -- and Obama himself agrees; the president acknowledged that it will be years before climate and clean energy reform could be back on the table.
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