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Obama references energy, climate challenges in inaugural address

President Barack Obama made a few points in his inaugural address that should bring smiles to the faces of environmental advocates.

Noting the goals he hopes to help achieve, Obama said: "We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories."

Later, he made a quick reference to climate change: "With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet."

In discussing international relations, he said: "To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow ... And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect."

Full text of the speech after the jump.

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