Unearthed Documents Show Obama Admin’s Inevitable Green Gambit

1 sourceUpdated Jul 2, 2026

Internal communications from the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that staffers rushed to publish a landmark climate regulation at a plum time for political messaging and imagining “group hugs” with…

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