State of the Union Jim Messina, who managed the president’s reelection campaign and serves as one of his closest outside advisers, said Obama “is laser-focused on the talks in Paris” and has pressed world leaders repeatedly in an effort to lay the groundwork for a meaningful international climate agreement. Domestically, the president is poised to use his power under the Antiquities Act to declare national monuments in several areas, including Chicago’s Pullman Park, Colorado’s Browns Canyon, California’s Lake Berryessa and Hawaii’s Honouliuli Internment Camp. He also is ready to begin an initiative, in concert with next year’s National Park Service centennial, that aims to get every fourth-grader in the country into a national park. The president and his top aides are comfortable making the environment a central part of their agenda in a way that they were not before. First lady Michelle Obama hosted Nicole Hernandez Hammer — a climate scientist from South Florida who has documented sea-level rise — in her box Tuesday night. washingtonpost/politics/the-remainder-of-obamas-legacy-may-depend-largely-on-him-going-it-alone/2015/01/20/230cf114-9b6c-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html?hpid=z3
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