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Obama Renews Promise to Break with Bush-Era Environmental Policies

No laughing matter ... Barack Obama at a rally in at North Carolina. (Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama today renewed his promise to make a decisive break with George Bush on the environment, using a summit convened by Arnold Schwarzenegger to promise a "new chapter in America's leadership on climate change".

The video appearance by Obama confirmed Schwarzenegger's role as a global leader on climate change, a position shored up only hours before when the California governor set a bold new target for his state to get a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

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