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Ex-Obama officials rue missed chances on climate action
By ROBIN BRAVENDER, TIMOTHY CAMA and KEVIN BOGARDUS
In oral histories, senior Democrats recounted how climate legislation took a back seat to President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
- Politico
The failure to clinch energy and environment legislation in former President Barack Obama’s first term was a “significant missed opportunity,” Obama’s former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a recently released oral history.
Another official, former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, went so far to say that Obama should have tried to…