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The Endangered Species Act protects polar bears from many human actions, but both the Bush, and now more recently, the Obama administrations prevented using the law to impose Climate Change-related limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The leading global emitter of greenhouse gases, the U.S. has shied away from global warming conference tables and failed to set deadlines to talk or to act. But deadlines may not lead to action anyway. Other issues are still debated: Is the cost of limiting or scrubbing emissions too high? Is there still uncertainty that cutting emissions will actually work? How do we break the Business vs Environment stalemate?
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