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1 President Obama Releases
Comprehensive Climate
Action Plan and Hints at US
Keystone Approach
By Elisabeth (Lisa) DeMarco
6 New Canadian Corruption
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Come Into Force
By Alison G. FitzGerald and
Stephen Nattrass
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President Obama Releases
Comprehensive Climate Action Plan
and Hints at US Keystone Approach
By Elisabeth (Lisa) DeMarco ( elisabeth.demarco@nortonrosefulbright.com), Norton Rose Fulbright
On June 25, 2013, President Obama
released a comprehensive Climate
Action Plan (CAP) that sets out bold
new domestic and international
actions for the United States to
mitigate “carbon pollution,” adapt to
climate change impacts, and enhance
its international leadership on climate
and clean energy. The president’s
announcement of the CAP was live-
streamed from Georgetown University
and replete with rhetoric signifying
that the CAP is a significant legacy
initiative for the president, who still
awaits confirmation of Gina McCarthy,
his intended leader of the US Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency (EPA),
which will be charged with imple-
menting many of the CAP directions.
If implemented, the most significant
effects of the CAP are predominantly
in three segments of the energy sector:
renewables, natural gas and energy
efficiency products, and finance.
Pushing a very strong renewables
and natural gas agenda, and touting
natural gas as a transition fuel, the
president indicated that the United
States could not “drill its way out
of energy and climate change” and,
in direct reference to the Keystone
Pipeline, stated that the US climate
change strategy “must be about
more than building one pipeline.”
He explained that the US State
Department was in the final stages of
