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    Why Republicans are embracing climate change

    by Justin Worland Mar 18, 2017 2 minutes
    EPA chief Scott Pruitt, seen at a January confirmation hearing, has disputed the key cause of global warming

    THROUGHOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S eight years in the White House, congressional Republicans rarely sounded the alarm over climate change. Even for those worried about it, there was no incentive to join with a Democratic Administration bullish on environmental issues. If the cause was already being championed, what, the political calculus went, was gained by defying their own party?

    As with so much else in Washington, the

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