To make it quite clear: the implication has nothing to do with the cause. the implication is that we are faced with an unexpected crisis that reveals a much ignored problem, and which can, if responded to the way it should be, change the nation and the world- for the better. The explosion of Deepwater […]
Entries Tagged as 'Obama Administration'
Do we have a new 9/11 and Katrina in terms of an opportunity for national transformation?
May 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · oil · OilApocalypse · oilpocalyse · President Barack Obama · the five percent solution
VP Biden’s excellent Earth Day announcement is perhaps 1% of what we need …
April 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
The day before the 40th Earth Day, VP Joe Biden kicked off a series of White House actions and announcements with an excellent initiative: selection of 25 communities for up to $452 million in Recovery Act funding to “ramp-up” energy efficiency building retrofits. Under the Department of Energy’s Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, communities, governments, private sector […]
Tags: building green · Congress · Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · financial policy · global warming deniers · government energy policy · Obama Administration · politics · President Barack Obama
Obama’s Missing The Boat on Clean Energy Will Turn Off Voters
February 4th, 2010 · Comments Off on Obama’s Missing The Boat on Clean Energy Will Turn Off Voters
This guest post from tboggia expresses an outrage over some of President Obama’s words shared by many fighting for a clean-energy future. Right after the State of the Union, young climate activists submitted a question about the President’s remarks on clean energy and crossed their fingers hoping that it would get asked. The smiling faces […]
Tags: Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama
Clean Energy from the SOTU Bully Pulpit: What a difference a year makes …
January 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The contrast between President Obama’s 2009 and 2010 State of the Union (SOTU) addresses is stark when it comes to the intersecting arenas of energy and climate. In 2009, President Obama made a strong and uncompromising call for investments in “clean, renewable energy” and made a direct statement about the type of climate legislation expected […]
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Obama Administration To Send Texas Hope of a Breath of Fresh Air?
November 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Obama Administration To Send Texas Hope of a Breath of Fresh Air?
News organizations are reporting that the Obama Administration plans to appoint Dr. Al Armendariz to lead Region 6 of the Environmental Protection Agency. Local environmentalists have greeted this with “high praise”. “Our region has typically provided a haven for some of the worst polluters in the country, and has paid a steep price,” said Tom […]
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A decade later, will Summers again sabotage progress on Climate Change?
May 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments
During the Clinton Administration, Carol Browner and Larry Summers faced off on climate issues. Carol Browner worked with Vice President Gore and others to develop paths for moving forward toward a less carbon intensive economy. Summers undercut momentum forward with strenuous (misguided, poorly informed, stove-piped economic analysis) statements of concern. Summers “argued that the United […]
Tags: climate change · Congress · energy efficiency · Global Warming · government energy policy · Obama Administration
100 Days of Energy Smart Action
April 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on 100 Days of Energy Smart Action
President Obama's First 100 Days: A Fast Start for Energy and the Environment on Dipity.
Tags: climate change · Energy · Obama Administration · President Barack Obama
Listening to a President …
April 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment
One of the struggles of the new Administration is adapting to having a US President who is actually worth listening to, for whom it is worth carving time out to watch and listen to public statements and the impressive number of press conferences/availabilities and town halls. Issues of energy and climate change come up in […]
Tags: barack obama · climate change · Energy · Obama Administration
Getting something wrong, while Obama Admin Gets Something Right
March 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Well, sometimes reacting to breaking RUMINT (rumors intelligence) can put one out on a limb … and sometimes the limb breaks. Thus, my reporting that Dan Kammen would be one of three appointees into the Department of Energy was wrong. Have to wonder when and where Dan will end up in the Administration (perhaps advisory […]
Tags: energy efficiency · Obama Administration
NY Times standing in solidarity with Washington Post
February 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Ideological conservatives hold The New York Times and The Washington Post to be beneath contempt, as poster children of their bizaare conceptions of media thease are supposed bastions of liberal bias. When it comes to climate change issues, however, The Washington Post (and, more seriously, Washington Post Writers’ Group) embrace of “fair and balanced” rather […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Obama Administration · truthiness