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Environmentalists turned up the heat Monday on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to come clean on issues like the Keystone XL pipeline and hydraulic fracturing in a protest outside her speech at a journalism awards ceremony.

Three climate-change groups Friends of the Earth, the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.org brought 10 demonstrators and Frostpaw the Polar Bear to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where Mrs. Clinton was the keynote speaker for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.

The protest, albeit small, comes as one of the first signs of public pressure directed at Mrs. Clinton from the green movement, a key component of the Democratic Party coalition. The three groups behind the rally are seen as younger, more aggressive and less likely to follow political protocol than more established environmental organizations.

Mrs. Clinton has remained somewhat cagey on energy issues, showing support for domestic natural gas production, which involves fracking, while remaining mum on the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama vetoed a bill to build the 1,179-mile pipeline last month.

As secretary of state, she pushed to expand the use of fracking to develop shale oil and natural gas in Europe and Asia as part of the Global Shale Gas Initiative. She also said she was inclined to sign off on the pipeline in 2010, according to Mother Jones.

When she was Secretary of State, she made comments that she would approve the pipeline, said Friends of the Earth climate and energy program director Ben Schreiber, who attended the rally. Shes now avoiding the subject altogether.

Activist also criticized the Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from a host of fossil-fuel companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil and Duke Energy.

Clinton has been laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential campaign but has yet to take strong positions on climate policy or come out against the Keystone XL pipeline, said the Center for Biological Diversity in a Monday statement.

In light of a recent wave of media attention regarding the Clinton Foundations ties with the oil industry, important questions have been raised about Clintons qualifications as a climate leader, said the statement.

Mrs. Clinton, who has not yet announced whether she will run but is considered the early frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, told the League of Conservation Voters in December that she was concerned about climate change as well as economic development.

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Hillary Clinton addressed the promise of urban renewal as an engine for economic expansion Monday but stressed the need for fostering growth "in a way that lifts everybody up."

As she closes in on the launch of a presidential campaign in which she will immediately be the Democratic Party front-runner, Clinton used her remarks at a liberal think tank in Washington to show her commitment to an issue important to the party'sbase: the equality gap.

"One of the biggest issues we face is income inequality, combined with wage stagnation," she said during a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress, an organization founded by herlikely campaign chairman, John Podesta. "We need to think hard about what we're going to do, now that people are moving back into and staying in cities, to make sure that our cities are not just places of economic prosperity and job creation on average, but do it in a way that lifts everybody up."

She described herself as very supportive of an effort by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to launch universal prekindergarten, calling it an example of ways to keep middle-class families from being priced out of increasingly expensive cities.

While her remarks touched on issuesthat have become top priorities for her party, she avoided a laundry list of policy proposals of the type a candidate might offer and instead sought to associate herself with what she described as a more pragmatic approach to governance in big cities.

"We have cities that are working well because they have been reinventing themselves, and they have done so in a collaborative, inclusive manner," she said, while other cities are struggling in a "political battlefield" where people are "in their ideological bunkers."

Clinton's participation in the panel, which also included Compton Mayor Aja Brown and Dixon Slingerland, the executive director of Los Angeles' Youth Policy Institute, was limited to brief opening and closing remarks. After the discussion, she singled out Brown's work combating gang violence, at which point she offered the morning's only hint of what might be in store for her in the near future.

"Don't be surprised if you get a call to come, and maybe we'll start not too far from here," she said, before clarifying she had a "beautiful domed building" in Washington in mind for Brown -- the Capitol, not the White House.

After the event, Brown praised Clinton's depth of understanding onthe challenges urban communities face and said she looks forward to "seeing her back on the national stage."

"If we can really focus on the things that unify us and the issues that really matter, then we can come to some real conclusions," she said.

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Hillary Clinton raised the right question, which is a start.

"Why," she asked Monday morning, "do some communities have, frankly, more ladders for opportunity than other communities?"

The likely 2016 Democratic frontrunner was headlining a roundtable discussion at the Center for American Progress on expanding opportunity in urban America. This question is actually a sophisticated and hugely important one, and the fact that Clinton is thinking about it hints at what could be an important theme in the coming election.

By definition, the American Dream sounds like an American phenomenon, something equally accessible to hard workers whether they live in a big city or a rural community, the North or the South, a Rust Belt town or a Sun Belt suburb. But, in fact, an accumulating body of research suggests that children growing up in some parts of the country have much better odds than children elsewhere of climbing up the economic ladder, of rising from poor roots to head middle- and upper-class households of their own.

The American dream, it turns out, is not a universal promise. It's more real for children in Seattle than Atlanta, for poor kids growing up around Salt Lake City than Charlotte.

Clinton cited Monday the research that helped document this, a landmark study led by Raj Chetty and other researchers at Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley released in 2013. They found that a child's prospects for economic mobility vary greatly and disturbingly by geography in America. There's something about metropolitan Seattle, in other words, that's more conducive to intergenerational mobility than Atlanta.

So what is that something (or somethings)? A couple of years ago as recently as the last presidential election we didn't even know to ask this question. Now that we do, we can have an election-season debate about social mobility that goes far beyond empty platitudes about hard work versus helping hands.

"How do we promote success and upward mobility?" Clinton said on Monday. "Its not only about average income, as important as that is. You can look at cities that on average have similar affluence, but people are trapped and not able to move up in one city, and are moving up in another."

Metropolitan Seattle and Atlanta have comparable median incomes. But in Seattle, about one in 10 kids raised by families in the bottom fifth of household incomes will rise to the top fifth by age 30. In Atlanta, the same is true for only about one in 25 kids at the bottom.

Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez have offered some initial answers as to what might be going on. Social mobility appears to be higher, they found, in metropolitan areas with less economic and racial segregation, with better schools, more social capital and lower rates of single parenthood. Other researchers at CAP have found higher social mobility among metros with a large middle class.

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