"Following the administration's announcement last week that it wants to make the regulatory system more friendly to businesses, there's some increasing anxiety about whether Obama will aggressively defend the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. A number of environmental and public health groups are lobbying the president to explicitly defend the agency's climate regulations in his State of the Union address on Tuesday."

Kate Sheppard reports for Mother Jones January 24, 2011. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"NASA's Hansen Presses Obama for a Carbon Cost and Nuclear Push" (Dot Earth) [3]

"Obama's State of the Union: What He Should Say But Won't" (Grist) [4]

"An Environmental State of the Union: Opportunities for the Administration and the New Congress" (Huffington Post) [5]