Obama To Press Climate Agenda With Trip To Everglades on Earth Day

"President Obama will tout his administration's efforts to protect the environment during a visit to the Everglades in south Florida on Wednesday, as the White House presses its go-it-alone climate-change agenda.

With legislative efforts dead on Capitol Hill in the face of Republican opposition, Obama has sought to move forward on his own in ways large and small. The trip, on Earth Day, to the 734 square-mile tropical wetlands is aimed at highlighting a region that the administration said is threatened by global warming.

'The Everglades are flat, and they border a rising ocean,' Brian Deese, a senior adviser to Obama, wrote on the White House blog. 'As the sea levels rise, the shorelines erode, and that salty water travels inland, threatening the aquifers supplying fresh drinking water to Floridians.'"

David Nakamura reports for the Washington Post April 20, 2015.

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