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House Climate Bill Proposal Tougher Than Obama Asked For

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Ed Markey, Obama Environment, Climate Bill Proposal, Climate Bill, Henry Waxman, Green Politics, Barack Obama, Green News

There's finally a trailhead for the long, slow road toward a climate bill. Representatives Ed Markey and Henry Waxman announced their bill proposal, w...

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Carbon-Neutral Phoenix Could Be On The Way (VIDEO)

Newsweek | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Phoenix, Green Stimulus, Green Business, Carbon-Neutral City, Green Politics, Phoenix-Arizona, Green News

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon wants to make his city America's first carbon-neutral city. The stimulus money is flowing and he says that bum economy or no...

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Mountaintop Mining Procedures Halted In West Virginia By Court

The Charleston Gazette | More Comments ยป | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Green Politics, Coal, Mining, West Virginia, Green News

U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin issued an injunction that blocked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from authorizing new valley fills through its...

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Pentagon Wants To Reduce Its $13 Billion Energy Spending

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Greening the Military, Energy, Military, Pentagon, Green Politics, Iraq, Afghanistan, Green News

Despite reducing its overall energy consumption by five per cent between 2005 and 2007, the US military spent $US13 billion ($18.46 billion) on energy...

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Obama Signs Wilderness Bill

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green Politics, Obama Environment, Wilderness Bill, Washington-United States, Green News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness. O...

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House Votes To Expand Wilderness In 9 States

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Politics, Wilderness Bill, Wilderness Protection, Environment, Green News

The 285-140 roll call Wednesday by which the House voted to aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness. More than 1,000 mi...

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EPA Mountaintop Mining Backtrack: Permits NOT Frozen

switchboard.nrdc.org | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Green Politics, Mining, Green News

Now I'm disappointed and more than a little confused by EPA's "clarifying" statement issued this evening. Based on this, it appears that EPA is takin...

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Si Se Puede: Every Chilean Can (and Does) Screw in a Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb

Larry Coben | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Savings, Chile, Energy, Energy Conservation, Energy Saving Technology, Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs, Latin America, South American Energy, Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs, Conservation, South America, Green Energy, Green Politics, Green News
Larry Coben

The cleanest, greenest, cheapest and most secure energy is the energy we don't use. The empirical evidence from Chile is overwhelming and proves the savings.

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EPA Freezes Hundreds Of Mountaintop Mining Permits

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Politics, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Coal, Coal Mining, Huntington-West Virginia, Richmond-Virginia, Charleston-West Virginia, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency put hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits on hold Tuesday to evaluate the projects' impac...

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Greenpeace: China Should Participate In UN Climate Talks

AP | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Climate Change, China, Un, Green Politics, Green News

BEIJING — Greenpeace China is calling on Chinese President Hu Jintao to attend December's climate change conference in Copenhagen. As the world...

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Greenhouse Gases Threaten Public Health, EPA Finds

washingtonpost.com | Juliet Eilperin | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Pollution, Green Politics, Green News

The proposal -- which comes in response to a 2007 Supreme Court decision ordering EPA to consider whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases sh...

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Obama Talks Renewable Energy And New Technology (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Environment, Video, Green Technology, Green Politics, Barack Obama, Green News

President Barack Obama is speaking today on new technology and clean energy, after administration officials have communicated that renewable energy po...

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Obama Administration Says Energy Reform Not Negotiable

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Obama Environment, Green Energy, Green Stimulus, Green Politics, Green Technology, Green News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday the nation must move quickly to develop clean and innovative sources of energy after years of de...

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Many Renewable Projects Meet Local Opposition

wsj.com | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Nimby, Green Stimulus, Green Politics, Green News

Even though Obama has approved tens of billions of dollars in direct grants, loans and loan guarantees for the renewable and transmission industries, ...

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Obama's Electric Vehicles Plan: $2.4B In New Grants

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Slideshow, Economic Stimulus Package, Electric Cars, Cars, Green Cars, Green Politics, Barack Obama, Green Technology, Green News

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced $2.4 billion in new grants for electric vehicle developments, which will come from the $787 billion in sti...

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Obama's Environment Policy May Have Drawn Short Straw

TIME | Jay Newton | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Obama Environment, Green Politics, Green News

Already, House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman has told environmental groups that while he aims to have the greenhouse-gas legisla...

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Bureaucrats Brawl, Offshore Wind Debate Halts

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Green Energy, Green Politics, Ken Salazar, Department of the Interior, Green News

WASHINGTON — While the Obama administration has touted offshore renewable energy development, a turf fight between two federal agencies has stym...

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New Government Brochure: "Human Activities Are Impacting The Climate System"

AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Causes of Climate Change, Climate Change, Effects of Climate Change, Green Politics, Government Climate Brochure, Green News

WASHINGTON — Day after day, reports of the dangers of climate and climate change circulate in the news, often filled with confusing data and deb...

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Cities Helping Even Skeptics Get Into Solar

nytimes.com | LESLIE KAUFMAN | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Incentives, Green Politics, Green Technology, Solar Power, Green News

Bronzed and deeply lined from decades of life in the desert sun, Mr. Clark is not one to worry about global warming. He suspects that if the planet's ...

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"The Filthy Fifteen" States With Most Dangerous Coal Ash

NRDC | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Coal Ash, Pollution, Coal, Green Politics, Coal Ash Storage, Green News

In the wake of the December 22 disastrous spill of toxic coal ash into a Tennessee River -- into and over houses, leaving sludge behind that the Tenne...

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Van Jones: Obama's Green Jobs "Handyman"

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Jobs Czar, Green Jobs, Economy, Green Business, Green Politics, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Green News

Since the drafting of Van Jones to the Obama administration, people have wondered what exactly his job will be and what it will mean for the future of...

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Sonar Vs. Whales, Part Two: Florida's Atlantic Coast

AP | RON WORD | Posted 04.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Sonar, Military, Sonar Whales, Endangered Species, Animals, Whales, Green Politics, Right Whales, Navy, Green News

FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. — In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through t...

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Administration Announces $8 Billion In Weatherization, Efficiency Grants

AP | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Economic Stimulus Package, Obama Environment, Weatherization, Economy, Environment, Green Politics, Green News

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is encouraging state officials to get on the front lines of the government's program to revive the ailing economy....

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Oprah: Mountaintop Removal's Worst Nightmare

ecorazzi, DailyKos | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Ashley Judd, Video, Environment, Oprah, Mountaintop Removal, Green Politics, Diane Sawyer, Coal, Green News

Issues like mountaintop removal coal mining -- a type of mining that is both environmentally and visually horrific -- were made for television. But we...

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Kicking the Dust

Matthew Owen | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, President Obama, Green Energy, Green Politics, Green Jobs, Green News
Matthew Owen

The Obama administration has essentially become venture capitalists in a groundbreaking new enterprise with this bill -- and that enterprise is called "The New American Green Economy."

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