Environmental Groups Say TTIP Would Undermine Obama's Climate Legacy

A coalition of environmental groups is campaigning against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as a blight on the Obama administration's climate change record. Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and many other groups sent a letter to the president this week saying the EU's TTIP plans would “backtrack on the G20 commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, threaten mandatory energy efficiency standards, eliminate all restrictions on gas exports between the U.S. and the EU, and...