United Nations conference

While uncertainty swirling over a meaningful climate change agreement coming out of Copenhagen, and the U.S. Senate far from passing anything close to last summer’s House climate change bill, the Obama administration’s Plan B – the threat of stepped-up EPA regulation – is making Colorado’s oil and gas industry increasingly nervous.

The New York Times government and political blog the Caucus was reporting Wednesday morning that President Obama will attend the United Nations global climate change summit in Copenhagen next month, where he will commit to reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.