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The Supreme Court just handed the next president a powerful lever to control U.S. climate policy

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imageBy putting a temporary halt to Obama's cornerstone climate policy, the Supreme Court puts the next president in the driver's seat. tabor-roeder/flickr, CC BY-SA

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to halt, at least temporarily, implementation of one of the central components of the federal effort to constrain U.S. climate emissions,...

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