Making climate change a priority, Obama gives hope to activists

American-Statesman: Where other people see perfectly healthy trees, Anna Graybeal sees drought-stricken skeletons. "The changing climate is putting these trees at risk," she says, gazing out, with a hint of terror, from a table at an Austin coffee shop recently. As volunteers for the Citizens Climate Lobby, Graybeal, 47, a psychologist, and her friend, Susan Adams, 40, a technical writer, are among a dozen or so Austinites working on a seemingly Sisyphean effort to get federal lawmakers to adopt a tax-and-dividend...

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