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What John Podesta’s annoying hippie-punching tells us about Obama’s climate agenda

Week: This week, President Obama's special adviser John Podesta dropped a few classic Washington bromides about those unreasonable environmentalists: "If you oppose all fossil fuels and you want to turn that switch off tomorrow, that is a completely impractical way of moving toward a clean-energy future," Podesta told reporters during a roundtable discussion at the White House. "With all due respect to my friends in the environmental community, if they expect us to turn off the lights and go home,...