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U.S. Pledges Emissions Cuts

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17 percent cut of 2005 levels by 2020.

The trademark “Obama cool” will be on hand to fight global warming: President Obama will in fact attend the beginning of the U.N. climate-change meeting in Copenhagen on December 9, before jetting off to Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. The president will apparently pledge to reduce American greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent of 2005 levels by 2020. He will not return for the end of the meeting, which runs from December 7 to December 18.

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