The Obama administration wants federal agencies to disclose more information about how their work affects climate change, in new guidance that was six years in the making and has spurred legal and economic concerns.

Environmental groups are hailing the new disclosures, published by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, while others contend that the climate-change analysis could thwart new business and infrastructure projects and provide fodder for litigation.

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