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NPR讲解附字幕:奥巴马公布美首份气候行动计划 美新房销售量创新高 查看原帖 From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. 这里是华盛顿NPR新闻，我是拉克什米·辛格。 President Obama is out with a far-reaching plan to fight climate change. In a speech at Georgetown University, Obama announced his administration would launch the first-ever federal regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. He's also calling for a boost in renewable energy production on federal lands and means of preparing localities to address global warming. Republican critics in Congress call the president's proposals a job killer. Obama also shed more light today on how his administration is deliberating the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas. 奥巴马总统发布远景计划对抗气候变化。奥巴马在乔治城大学发表演讲并宣布，他的政府将发布首个限制现有发电厂二氧化碳排放量的联邦法规。同时，他要求扩大联邦土地的可再生能源项目，为各地区应对全球变暖做准备。国会共和党批评人士称总统的提案是就业杀手。今天，奥巴马进一步阐释了政府对加拿大至得克萨斯州的基斯通石油管道项目的想法。 "Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interest. And our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." “允许建造基斯通石油管道项目要以其符合我们国家的利益为前提。除非这一工程不会导致碳污染问题显著恶化，它才符合我们的国家利益。” The pipeline has been under review for more than four years. 这个石油管道项目的审查时间已超过四年。 The US Supreme Court has struck down part of the Voting Rights Act that had required federal monitoring of states with the history of racial discrimination. In a 5-4 ruling today, the justices said Congress needed to update its formula for deciding which states and localities still require pre-approval before changing voting laws. NPR's Carrie Johnson has been following this case. 美国最高法院推翻了《投票权法案》中的部分内容，该内容要求联邦监视有种族歧视记录的州。今天，最高法院以5票赞成、4票反对的结果推翻了相关内容，法官表示，国会需要更新条款，以决定哪些州和地区在更改投票法之前要得到事先批准。NPR新闻的卡丽·约翰逊将带来追踪报道。 Chief Justice John Robert writing for the majority said that the coverage formula under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional because it's based on outdated data, election turnout data and other data back from t