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Ethical Debate: Clean Energy and the State of the Union

Posted on February 1, 2011January 30, 2011 By David Shiffman 7 Comments on Ethical Debate: Clean Energy and the State of the Union
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I’ve been critical of President Obama’s policies concerning science, technology and education in the past. I think he uses a lot of great-sounding rhetoric, but I have yet to see very much in the way of actual results. Despite lofty promises about climate change, we remain without a cap-and-trade system or any sort of meaningful response plan. To make things worse, the administration recently fired their primary adviser for climate change policy. Is all hope lost? Perhaps not.

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