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Rick Perry wants to all-but-eliminate the EPA (at the very least, he wants to severely hobble it.) And the people trying to keep President Obama in the White House are not going to let that stand.

Although Obama has been in some high-profile tussles with the environmentalist community lately, his campaign and its allies made it clear today they’re willing to defend their environmental record and contrast it with the universally-accepted view among the GOP candidates that environmental protection goes too far.