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Climate change action and more drilling likely in Obama’s second term

The newly re-elected President may be on course to becoming one of America's greenest.

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This article was originally published by Scientific American on 7 November 2012.

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Biello, D. Climate change action and more drilling likely in Obama’s second term. Nature (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.11784

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