The Green FDR: Obama’s First 100 Days Make — And May Remake — History
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffThe media just keeps missing -- or messing up -- the story of the century. Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition. ...
Endangerment Finding Clears White House Review, Official Announcement Expected Earth Day
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffLast month, EPA made its landmark finding: Global warming threatens public health and welfare. Now, as Greenwire (subs. req’d) reports today: U.S. EPA’s proposed endangerment finding cleared the White House review process yesterday, paving the ...
EPA Makes Landmark Finding: Global Warming Threatens Public Health and Welfare
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made its long-awaited “endangerment finding,” which will allow the agency, finally, to put a stop on greenhouse gases. In Massachusetts [vs. EPA], the Supreme Court found that greenhouse gases (GHGs) are ...
EPA Makes Landmark Finding: Global Warming Threatens Public Health and Welfare
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made its long-awaited “endangerment finding,” which will allow the agency, finally, to put a stop on greenhouse gases. In Massachusetts [vs. EPA], the Supreme Court found that greenhouse gases (GHGs) are ...
Spewing Carbon, Blowing Smoke
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffRepeat after me: giving polluters free carbon permits would be bad for consumers. CBO said it, Dave Roberts and Matt Yglesias said it, and I'll say it too: If we establish a carbon cap, giving away free carbon ...
Obama Tells Business Roundtable: “If You’re Giving Away Carbon Permits For Free … It Doesn’t Work” And “The Science Is Overwhelming”
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffObama spoke to the CEO's from the world's biggest companies yesterday and, "offered his most extensive remarks on global warming policy since taking office yesterday," as E&E Daily (subs req’d) reports. At the Business Roundtable meeting, Obama ...
White House to Science: Welcome Back
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffYesterday, U.S. President Obama released a memorandum for the heads of his executive departments and agencies firmly stating that throughout the executive branch, each agency will be required to use scientific and technological information in ...
White House to Science: Welcome Back
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffYesterday, U.S. President Obama released a memorandum for the heads of his executive departments and agencies firmly stating that throughout the executive branch, each agency will be required to use scientific and technological information in ...
China’s Complicated Internet Culture
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffThe Chinese internet is lots more complicated than you think. That's the core message of Rebecca MacKinnon's talk at the Berkman Center on the Chinese internet, deliberative government and internet filtering. Most of the models we have ...
The i-team: Turning Local Governments into Innovation Powerhouses
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffThe lines between business and government have been growing increasingly blurry in the face of the global economic downturn. But in the UK, a group of innovators is working to blend the two in a very ...
U.S. Congress Begins Talks On Energy Bill
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffJust days after U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a gift to the renewable energy industry - a multi-billion-dollar stimulus package - leaders in both Congress and the Administration discussed plans Monday for an energy bill that ...
Miliband Announces Green Makeover for Every Home in Britain by 2030
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffMinister unveils 'great British refurb' to cut household emissions one-third by 2020 with insulation and low-carbon technologies Millions of British homes will be insulated under government plans. Photograph: Graham Turner by Alok Jha All UK households will ...
President Obama: “The days where we’re just building sprawl forever, those days are over”
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments Offby Kaid Benfield At the president's town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, earlier today, he gave a clear statement about where the country needs to go with regard to land use and transportation: "Now, look, this is ...
Energy and Emissions Top Obama’s Green Tasklist
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffImage credit: Flickr/jmtimages by Suzanne Goldenberg (Click here to view the video component to this post) Barack Obama is raising expectations of swift action on the environment - possibly within his first few days in the White House.At ...
Opinion: Department of Green Labor
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments Offby Michael Renner In announcing that he intends Hilda Solis to be his Secretary of Labor, President-elect Barack Obama made good on his campaign pledge of change: Not only will this choice likely bring relief from ...
European Leaders Agree on Package of Laws to Cut Emissions
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffPackage details cuts emissions and energy consumption by 20% and raises energy from renewables by 20% all by 2020 by Ian Traynor Almost two years after staking a claim to lead the battle against global warming, and ...
California Leads the Way (Again)
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffAir board approves ambitious climate plan by Adam Stern California regulators took a major step forward in climate policy today by approving a plan to implement the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act. The plan commits the state ...
Australia Pledges to Cut Emissions by up to 15%
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments Offby Damian Carrington and agencies A coal stacker pours coal into piles ready for export in Newcastle, Australia. Image credit: Mick Tsikas/Reuters Australia today pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 5%-15% by 2020 ...
Poznań, Days 8, 9 & 10: The Grand Finale
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffAmanda Chiu reports from the 14th Conference of Parties (COP 14) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznań, Poland. I am not normally star-struck by big names, but as people like Yvo ...
Hansen to Obama: Support a Carbon Tax
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Politics | Comments OffEminent climatologist James Hansen will urge U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to support a carbon tax, in a letter to be sent this week, Hansen said. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, is ...