Obama Will Go to COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen
President Obama announces his intention to attend the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen next month.
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Health Care Bill Hailed by Obama, but Stupak-Pitts Abortion Amendment May Divide Dems in 2010
While passage of House a health care bill was hailed as a victory for President Obama, the Democrat divide over the Stupak-Pitts abortion amendment is already playing out in the Massachusetts race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. After climate change compromise, inevitable escalation in Afghanistan, and little movement on gay rights, is the House health care bill’s abortion amendment a bridge too far for progressives? Will health care galvanize or divide Dems heading into 2010. And, what might it mean for climate change?
Obama Gives Clean Energy Speech, Says Naysayers Will Be Marginalized
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today, U.S. President Barack Obama threw strong support behind clean energy and technology, touting America’s history of innovation and not shying away from problems.
Senate Set to Compromise on Health Care and Climate Change
Olympia Snowe’s support of the finance committee draft puts health care back in play, but without a public option. The Graham-Kerry compromise climate bill would start to cap carbon, but also allow coal to cash in. Will progressives settle for incrementalism?
Trip to 2010: Worst-Kept Secrets Will Kill Climate Bill
Time-traveling to 2010 reveals how some of Washington’s worst-kept secrets will catch up with President Obama and cripple his climate agenda.
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: Does his Climate Change Record Stand up to Scrutiny?
President Obama was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for reasons including his stand on climate change. Has his environmental record justified this award?
Who’s Counting? Obama’s Olympic Failure Has Meaning for Copenhagen and Climate Change
Failure to read the field on Chicago’s Olympic bid begs the question: who is counting votes for President Obama? The White House will need a much better ground game if the US is going to lead the world on climate change.
Senate Climate Debate: Six to Watch on the Climb to Sixty
If the Senate can get 60 votes for climate change legislation, these are the six Senators that lobbyists will be courting, the White House will be pressing, and you should be watching.
Green Power Costs Contributing to Utility Shut Offs?
It is strange to be reading so many stories about premium-priced green power programs and net metering programs for excess power right alongside stories about utilities performing record numbers of shut-offs for non-payment.
“Cash for Refrigerators” Debuts in Fall. Really.
Beginning in the fall, consumers will have access – through existing state-level energy efficiency incentive programs – $300 million in stimulus funds made available as rebates for energy efficient appliances.
Gilding the Lily on Green Jobs
Last week brought us climate as a security threat and White House officials are continuing to float trial balloons throughout August as they grope for a communications strategy. This week’s angle: green jobs.
Feds Pump $2.3 Billion into Clean Energy Manufacturing
The Department of Energy on Thursday released the details of a new $2.3 billion manufacturing tax credit, enacted earlier this year as part of President Obama’s stimulus package.
The Pentagon’s War Against Carbon
Outside of the Northeast and West Coast, climate change is still a “granola” issue and that supporters will need to grab on to some other arguments to gain political traction.
Obama Tested BY US-UAE Nuke Deal
The question of possible repurposing of civil nuclear technology has been a talking point in US policy on Iran, and that question specifically has been a bone of contention in the triangular posturing between the US, Iran and Russia.
Obama Declassifies Spy Satellite Images Revealing Climate Change Devastation Bush Tried to Hide
Images that were kept secret under President Bush have just been declassified by the Obama administration. These images reveal what scientists have predicted: “In recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.”