 obama bypassing congress on climate climate change advocates have been unable to move any legislation through the congress that addresses their concerns about global warming use of fossil fuels co2 emission and the like but there s more than one way to skin a cat president obama intends to advance his climatechange agenda through imposing new emissions standards by epa regulation rather than going through the legislative process where do opponents go from here get the details  thehillcom blogs regwatch administration 318599regulationnationobamapinsclimatehopesonbypas 