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Which Way, L.A.?

The Gulf Oil Spill and Climate Change in an Election Year

In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, polls by environmental groups show majorities of this year’s voters favor climate-change legislation. Republicans for Environmental Preservation found that even Tea Partiers hostile to Big Government would support caps on greenhouse emissions.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, polls by environmental groups show majorities of this year’s voters favor climate-change legislation. Republicans for Environmental Preservation found that even Tea Partiers hostile to Big Government would support caps on greenhouse emissions. But when Democrat John Kerry and Independent Joe Lieberman unveiled a climate-change compromise yesterday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called it “a job-killing national tax” that Republicans will oppose.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Juliet Eilperin

      senior national affairs correspondent for The Washington Post

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      Daniel Weiss

      Center for American Progress

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      Julian Morris

      Environmental Economist and Executive Director, International Policy Network

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