reporter: republicans say president obama is catering to a base that claims that the keystone pipeline would negatively affect climate change. a state department study claims that the pipeline would create more than $42,000 direct and indirect jobs while house lawmakers passed a bill approving the pipeline without the president s signature and efforts in the senate have stalled. the new loan program backs the president s push on climate change which he addressed last month. what we are doing is not enough. that s why a couple of weeks ago america proposed new standards to limit the amount of harmful carbon pollution that power plants can dump into the air. reporter: there are five areas the government would consider supporting. fist is advanced grid immigration and storage. another is drop in bio fuels with the goal of meeting existing fuel quality specifications. waste energy projects, projects that would enhance existing hydroelectric facilities and lastly, efficiency improveme
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emissions. it starts by building the keystone pipeline. put thousands of americans to work and show we re serious about our energy future. we set into motion more plans and pipelines and transmission lines. bringing low cost energy safely to consumers across the land. republicans say president obama is catering to a base that claims the keystone pipeline would negativively affect climate change. the pipeline would create more than 42,000 direct and indirect jobs. while house lawmakers passed a bill approving the pipeline without the president s signature, efforts in the senate have stalled. backs the president s push on climate change which he addressed last month. what we re doing is not enough. that s why a couple of weeks ago america proposed new standards to limit the amount of harmful carbon pollution that power plants can dump in the air. there are five areas the government would consider supporting. the first is advanced grid
push on climate change. here s white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: president obama s inaugural speech outlined a boldly liberal vision that congressional republicans declared dead on arrival. unabashedly far left of center inauguration speech. obviously it s not designed to bring us together. reporter: now that the inauguration is over, what is the president actually going to do? he dedicated more of the speech to climate change than any one issue. we will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. reporter: that came as a surprise. during the campaign, the president spent more time touting the very fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. too much oil, that s a good problem to have. reporter: we tried to press the white house on what the president is going to do now that he s made climate change a top priority. i think the president will move forward in implements so