Ignoring Protest and Warnings, Obama Ushers in Era of Unprecedented Arctic Drilling
<div class='node-body'><p>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.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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