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  Barack Obama unveils strict new climate change measures
  
  President brushes off Republican critics and global-warming sceptics with plan of action against
  
  'threat of our time'
  
  Democrats (US)Facing down a recalcitrant US Congress as well as a sceptical American public,
  
  President Barack Obama has unveiled a swathe of measures designed finally to put his
  
  administration's back into tackling global warming, notably imposing strict new curbs on carbon
  
  dioxide emissions from electricity-generating plants.
  
  The measures, which can be implemented without recourse to any votes by Congress, had been
  
  widely expected and were harshly criticised by the president's Republican critics even before he
  
  laid them out in a speech at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
  
  "The question is not whether we need to act, the overwhelming judgment of science, of chemistry
  
  and physics, millions of measurements have put all that to rest," Mr Obama said, dismissing those
  
  still debating the cause of warming.

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