Obama Energy Policy

Obama Touts Clean Energy in Battleground State

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 05.24.2012

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Despite sustained criticisms from the oil industry and his presumptive general election opponent on energy issues, President Barack Obama has, in rece...

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Obama Pushes 'To-Do List,' Hits Mitt In Battleground State

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.24.2012

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — As President Barack Obama readies for a return to the Iowa State Fairgrounds, his campaign is reminding voters that it was in...

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Obama's Soros-Controlled Energy Council

Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.11.2012

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If natural gas is an already cheap and abundant source of energy, why would we subsidize it? The answer may be found with the Soros Management Fund.

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It's Time to Tango: The Case for a Reinvigorated Western Hemisphere Energy Strategy

Federico F. Peña | Posted 04.14.2012

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A fulsome approach to developing the Western Hemisphere's energy potential would have a profoundly positive impact on America's energy security.

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Obama Pressures Congress To End Big Subsidies

AP | Posted 05.29.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plea to Congress to end $4 billion in tax subsidies to oil companies was rebuffed Thursday as the Senate t...

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Obama Calls On Congress To End Huge Subsidy

AP | Posted 03.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is renewing his call for Congress to end tax breaks to oil companies. In a Rose Garden speech Thursday, Obama wi...

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Obama's March Madness

Michael Brune | Posted 05.26.2012

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Spring is in the air -- but has the president really fallen madly in love with dirty energy? As usual, the answer is complicated.

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Obama Goes On The Offense For Energy

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.21.2012

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MALJAMAR, N.M. — Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pum...

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Obama Hits Back At GOP Presidential Candidates

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2012

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LARGO, Md. -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers...

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President Speaking On Key Issue

AP | Posted 03.15.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama makes a trip to the Washington suburbs on Thursday to talk about energy. He'll speak at Prince George's Communit...

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Obama Goes On Offense On Energy, Gas Prices

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- At a time when Congressional Republicans are scrambling to find ways to blame him for rising gas prices, President Barack Obama on Monda...

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Democrats And Republicans Battle Over Gas Prices

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.07.2012

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WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans and Democrats are again battling over rising gas prices. At a hearing Wednesday, Republicans and oil indu...

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Worsening Indicator Could Cloud Obama Re-Election Hopes

AP | By TOM RAUM | Posted 02.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Soaring gasoline prices are threatening to undercut President Barack Obama's re-election prospects and offering Republicans an easy targ...

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Newt Makes Big Pledge

AP | BRIAN BAKST | Posted 04.22.2012

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OKLAHOMA CITY — A once-powerful Washington figure himself, Newt Gingrich pledged Tuesday to state lawmakers in Oklahoma that he'd shrink the rol...

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GOP Candidate Seeks Comeback At The Pump

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 02.16.2012

Newt Gingrich is attempting to revive his faltering campaign for president by attacking President Barack Obama's energy policy. In a column in the ...

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Obama Tries To Take Credit For Achievement He Has Little To Do With

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 04.07.2012

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WASHINGTON — You wouldn't know it from the Republicans, but these are boom times for American energy. And you wouldn't know it from President B...

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Americans Favor One Energy Option Above Others

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A majority of the public still supports government funding for alternative energy research, although the degree of enthusiasm has decrea...

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Perry's Energy Plan Offers More of the Same When America Needs Innovation

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 12.19.2011

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Perry's plan disregards market realities, and by doing so, hands over dominance of the clean energy market to China. He's selling America short in a field we could actually lead in favor of one we never will.

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Government Has Long History of Promoting Innovation; It Should Do the Same with Clean Energy

Peter Lehner | Posted 12.10.2011

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Government research funding and loan guarantees can help advanced technologies move out of the lab and into the market faster. That means Americans will have quicker access to the benefits.

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Obama: Clean Energy Loans 'Entail Some Risk, By Definition'

Posted 12.06.2011

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Speaking at the White House Thursday about the economy and jobs, President Obama said loan guarantees for the clean energy sector are needed to help U...

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Three Strikes and You're Hot: Time for Obama to Say No to the Fossil Fuel Wish List

Bill McKibben | Posted 08.02.2011

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The Obama administration is making its biggest decisions yet on our energy future, and those decisions are intimately tied to this continent's geography.

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The Return of Drill, Baby, Drill

Steven Cohen | Posted 07.16.2011

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With gasoline prices now north of $4 a gallon, and the summer driving season upon us, politicians have predictably resumed pandering to the oil industry and those who think we can drill our way back to cheaper energy.

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For Young Environmental Activists, Obama's Now The One To Pressure

Tribune | Peter Nicholas | Posted 06.17.2011

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Thousands of college students and idealistic young voters came in this weekend to learn organizing techniques aimed at pushing the country toward rene...

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Obama: Gas Prices Will Continue To Fluctuate Until Broader Changes Are Made

AP | By DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 06.06.2011

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FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. -- Pitching the promise of energy independence, President Barack Obama cautioned Wednesday that it's going to be tough to transiti...

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Obama Sets Ambitious Goal To Reduce U.S. Oil Imports

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.30.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a one-third reduction in U.S. oil imports by 2025, reviving a long-elusive goal of r...

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