Hurricane Sandy has made climate change a real, visceral political issue, and "the impact on wealthier suburban communities has created more political support for addressing an issue that was largely ignored throughout the 2012 campaign," says Julian Zelizer at CNN. And despite the continuing opposition of Republicans and coal-state Democrats, says former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman in The New York Times, federal cap-and-trade proposals are a solution that "should stay on the table." Hopefully "my Republican colleagues will see the wisdom of a market-based system for funding a public good — all very much Republican principles."
http://theweek.com/article/index/236257/obamas-second-term-the-case-for-new-climate-change-laws
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