Obama Greenhouse-Gas Cut Plan Is Rhetoric, Australia’s Robb Says

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President Barack Obama’s bid to cut power-plant emissions in the U.S. is all talk and no action, Australia’s chief trade deals negotiator said.

“Despite the rhetoric you get over here and all the targets for 30 percent reductions and all this, it’s just rhetoric,” Trade Minister Andrew Robb said in a Sky News interview from Houston, Texas, where he was visiting alongside Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. “There’s no action associated with it.”