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time.com - 6/7/2009

How green is Obama?

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Time Magazine: Many environmentalists -- who spent the eight years of the Bush Administration in the cold -- would agree. Obama announced tough new national standards for automobile emissions and fuel efficiency that essentially settled a long-running battle between environmentalists and the car ...

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