However, with the administration of President George W. Bush on the way out, there is new hope that President-elect Barack Obama will bring a new direction in U.S. environmental policy.
Obama's new "green team" headed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as secretary of energy and Carol M. Browner in the newly-created position of White House coordinator of energy and climate policy are more in line with Al Gore-like thinking. Same goes for Lisa P. Jackson, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The president-elect supports cutting emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, and favors an international cap-and-trade system.
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