Carol Browner

Women In Power: Carol Browner Speaks for First Time Since Leaving Post As White House Energy Czar

Matthew Dakotah | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Energy, Environment, Women in Power, Carol Browner Bio, Carol Browner, Carol Browner Interview, Obama Energy Czar, White House Energy Czar, Green News

"With climate change, my generation runs the risk of giving to subsequent generations a problem they won't be able to solve."

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Obama Presents NRDC Founder John Adams with a Presidential Medal of Freedom

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, John Adams Nrdc, Catskills, Fracking, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Carol Browner, Nrdc, Natural Gas, Green News

Today NRDC Founder John Adams will travel to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United St...

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Weekly Mulch: Can Clean Energy Curb Climate Change? Probably Not.

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger During the State of the Union address earlier this week, President Barack Obama spoke at length about clea...

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Carol Browner Leaving White House

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House climate change adviser Carol Browner will step down in coming weeks, Obama administration sources said on Monda...

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David Gregory Doesn't Tolerate "Softball Answers"

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Last week, Meet the Press anchor David Gregory hosted a panel discussion in Washington, D.C., on the subject of "college completion and the American f...

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Dear White House Re: Oil Spill Not Gone

Philip Radford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Oil Spill, Carol Browner, Green News, Climate Change, Environmental News, Oil, Green, Environment, Sustainability, Green Energy, Animals, Energy, Global Warming, Green News

Ms. Carol Browner Director Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 August 16, 20...

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Not So Fast

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Clean Energy, Gulf Oil Spill, Carol Browner, Smarter Ideas, Green News

Even if you accept the government's numbers, that still leaves 100 million gallons of oil still in the Gulf, either on the surface, dispersed, or unaccounted for. That's 10 times more than the Exxon-Valdez spilled.

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GOP To Introduce Lame-Duck Prohibition Resolution, Citing Browner's Remarks On Energy Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Price Resolution, Republicans Break, Carol Browner, Republicans Price, Lame Duck Session, Tom Price, Republican Winter Vacation Act, Politics News

House Republicans are going forward with plans to introduce a resolution on Tuesday to prohibit the House of Representatives from assembling during th...

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Floods, Fires, Hipsters: Mission Accomplished

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Sara Silverman, Carol Browner, Green Technology, Pakistan, Breaking Politics News, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Green News

Record flooding in Pakistan displaces millions; temperatures reach 106.3°F in the Ukraine; and the administration75% of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon blow-out has been taken care of by Mother Nature. Whew.

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Weekly Mulch: Oil rig sinks, as does Senate climate bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cape Cod, Epa, Regulation, Clean Energy, Kevin Drum, Mms, Lieberman, Dod, Carol Browner, Biomass, Oil Spill, Cape Wind, Mother Jones, Disaster, Climate Bill, In These Times, Grist, Texas Observer, Bp, Kerry, Louisiana, Greenhouse Gas, Massachusetts, Texas, Coast Guard, Care2, Wind Farm, Interior Department, Graham, Environment, Oil, Off-Shore Drilling, Working in These Times, Senate, The Washington Independent, Exxon Valdez, Green News

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil f...

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Defense Mobilizes Louisiana National Guard to Fight BP Oil Spill

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deputy Secretary of Interior David Hayes, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Bp, Louisiana, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, George W. Bush, Admiral Mike Mullen, British Petroleum, Transocean/Deepwater Horizon, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Carol Browner, Fishing Industry, Rear Admiral Mary Landry, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Noaa, St. Bernard ParishGulf of Mexico, Plaquemines, Green News

The US Defense Department authorized the deployment of the Louisiana National Guard to help local communities in the cleanup and removal of oil. Whether critical habitats can be protected from contamination is the question of the hour.

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Justice Department's BP Investigation Ongoing Even After $20 Billion 'Settlement'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Bp Meeting, BP Settlement, BP Investigation, Bp Account, Robert Gibbs, Carol Browner, Bp Escrow Account, Justice Department, Settlement, Criminal Investigation Doj, Doj Investigation, Politics News

White House and Justice Department officials confirmed on Wednesday that investigations into criminal negligence by BP will continue even after the oi...

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This Day In Deepwater Horizon Spill Rate Estimates

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Petroleum, BP Oil Spill, Thad Allen, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Estimates, British Petroleum Oil Spill, Carol Browner, Eat the Press, Media News

We have now entered the post-robot shears and preliminary containment cap era, so let's get the latest from Admiral Thad Allen, who was questioned on the matter by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

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Causes and Consequences of the BP Oil Catastrophe: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Will Never Know

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Halliburton, Bp, British Petroleum, Dr. Charles Perrow, Barack Obama, Gulf Oil Spill Illness, Transocean, Stephen Chu, Gulf Oil Spill, Carol Browner, Gulf Oil Spill Health, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Green News, Chemical Dispersants, Bp Executives, Oil Health Problems, Oil Toxicity, Green News

There is one, and only one, way to ensure that deep water oil drilling never again leads to catastrophe, and that is to discontinue all deep water oil drilling. Period.

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Carol Browner: BP Could Increase Oil Flow Into Gulf With Next Effort

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carol Browner, Gulf Oil Spill, Top Kill, Cut and Remove, Carol Browner Energy Czar, Oil Flow, How Much Oil, Oil Spill Response, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — White House energy czar Carol Browner says BP's next effort to contain the oil spewing from a damaged well in the Gulf could resul...

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Carol Browner: Administration 'Prepared For The Worst,' Oil May Leak Until August

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says the Gulf oil spill is probably the biggest environmental disaster the country has ...

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Dirty Polluters Rewriting the Clean Air Act

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Big Oil, Carol Browner, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Chamber of Commerce, Climate Bill, Lindsey Graham, Clean Air Act, Green News

According to leaked reports on Wednesday, the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman draft of the climate bill would gut the Clean Air Act and over-ride existing state laws that provide critical environmental protections.

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Meatless Monday: The Eyes of Texas

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Carol Browner, Migas, Ipcc, Texas, Rick Perry, Clean Air Act, Lisa P. Jackson, Food, Meatless Mondays, Green News

My father's joke is, you know when you're in trouble when you hear: 1) The check is in the mail. or 2) I'm from the government, I'm here to help you. ...

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Earth and the Balance of Powers: What the Citizens United Ruling Means for the Environment

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental, Carol Browner, The Lorax, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Citizens United, Corporate Greed, Mccain-Feingold, Lisa P. Jackson, Charles Schumer, Green News

Corporations are not just citizens united to make protected speech, but artificial structures entitled to legal and tax advantages different from individual citizens. They exist for the avowed purpose of making money -- not advocating policy.

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Three Reasons for Hope in Copenhagen

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Chu, Carol Browner, Congress, Copenhagen 2009, John Holdren, Tom Vilsack, United Nations, President Obama, Gary Locke, Nobel Peace Prize, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Unfccc, Pearl Harbor, Green News

The requirement for the U.S. Congress to sign off on any document produced at Copenhagen for it to legally bind us to those agreements, is another reason why I'm hopeful.

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At the White House, Clean Tech Gets a Push

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama White House, Obama Green Tech Speech, Clean Energy, Retrofitted-Buildings, Green Energy, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Barack Obama, Green News

W.H. Climate Change Policy Director Carol Browner said, "I've been in and out of D.C. for twenty years, and there's sort of that tipping point that happens, where everyone who talks starts saying not 'if' but 'when.'"

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Obama on His Own

Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Energy Efficiency, Lisa Jackson, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Waxman-Markey, Epa, Green, Climate Change, Department of Energy, Green Energy, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Haiti Earthquake, Green News

Using his executive authority, President Barack Obama can instruct power plants to slash emissions and order new efficiency standards to cut the energy used by consumer and commercial appliances.

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No Climate Change Bill This Year, Says Obama Adviser

The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, House, Waxman Markey Bill, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Talks, Obama, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carol Browner, Waxman-Markey, Emissions, Senate, Climate Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP)- President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "...

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Glenn Beck's Next Target: Cass Sunstein

washingtonindependent.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Beck's Next Target, Van Jones, Carol Browner, Glenn Beck Twitter, Obama Administration, Mark Lloyd, Glenn Beck, Cass Sunstein, Politics News

As he makes a real impact in pushing conservative fringe attacks on Obama administration officials into the mainstream, Glenn Beck's Twitter feed has ...

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Jimmy Carter's Next Urgent Mission: Polarized Appalachian Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Appalachia, Carol Browner, EPA; Lisa Jackson, President Barack Obama, Former President Jimmy Carter, Department of Interior, Big Coal, Van Jones, Green News

Mountaintop removal has ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and depopulated and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin.

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