Ignoring Protest and Warnings, Obama Ushers in Era of Unprecedented Arctic Drilling
President Barack Obama, who once elevated the hopes of many US environmentalists by promising to be a 'transformative' president -- one whose term, as he said, would mark "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal" -- may yet be the president remembered for passing on a potentially historic opportunity to end, or at least curb, the practice of dangerous offshore drilling.
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Obama's Record on Climate Change Scrutinized by Activists
President Barack Obama at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. (Getty images) "I think I missed the part where they discussed the Arctic melting," the environmentalist and author Bill McKibben recently quipped .
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