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Obama To Let States Set Emissions Regulations

nytimes.com | JOHN M. BRODER and PETER BAKER | Posted 02.25.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to s...

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Obama's Cabinet Roundup: How Green Is The New Team?

Grist | Posted 02.19.2009 | Green

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OK, it's the moment of truth. This week, a new presidency begins, and with it a whole slew of other regime changes occur throughout the US government....

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Something to Chu On

Brian Keane | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

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To be sure, the nomination of Steven Chu -- like almost all of the Obama appointments -- represents a striking and hopeful departure from the approach we've seen under President Bush.

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Right-Wing Conspiracy: Obama "Climate Czar" Is "Socialist"

Think Progress | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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The right wing has discovered that Carol Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's new White House energy and environment adviser, was briefly a member ...

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A Message to Congress: Energy Smart Programs Will Save the Economy

Brian Keane | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

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Despite Friday's piece in the Times, there seems to be a growing consensus around Washington that the road to our nation's economic salvation will be ...

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Exxon CEO Doesn't Think Obama Can Meet Green Goals

Reuters | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

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Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said on Thursday it would be difficult to meet President-elect Barack Obama's goal to significantly boost U.S. alternati...

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Obama: Green Stimulus Will Include Smart Energy Grid

Grist | Kate Sheppard | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

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On Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama called for doubling production of alternative energy in the United States over the next three years as part ...

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Obama's Team Has Fought Each Other On Environment Since 1997

New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

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Mr. Summers, then the deputy Treasury secretary, said at the time that there was a compelling scientific case for action on global warming but that a ...

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James Hansen's Open Letter To Obama: From A Top NASA Scientist And A Fellow Parent

Grist | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

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Dear Michelle and Barack, We write to you as fellow parents concerned about the Earth that will be inherited by our children, grandchildren, and th...

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Nature Has a Way with Black Swans

Harry Fuller | Posted 02.04.2009 | Green

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How the money's spent matters not just because the "stimulus" might work or fail... It matters because we're despoiling the planet at an ever greater rate and we don't have a replacement.

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Obama's Green Team Split On Curbs

New York Times | John Broder | Posted 02.03.2009 | Green

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In the fall of 1997, when the Clinton administration was forming its position for the Kyoto climate treaty talks, Lawrence H. Summers argued that the ...

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Simple Solutions for 2009

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

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By now you have no doubt read a dozen reviews of 2008 and projections for 2009, all pure guesses for the latter, unless someone was carefully predicti...

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How to Make a Climate Deal

Michael Levi | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green

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We called on the President to leverage ambitious action at home to advance a broad foreign policy agenda, including a five-point strategy for UN climate negotiations.

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We Need Change at Interior, Not More of the Same

Michael Markarian | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

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Obama faces a choice between a new direction that would place environmental conservation above corporate interests, and a pick similar to past selections at the Department of the Interior.

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Nancy Sutley Leading Obama's Environmental Council

AP | LIZ SIDOTI and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist...

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What's Next for Obama, Green-wise?

Wall Street Journal | Keith Johnson | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

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After filling the economic and national security rosters, the Obama administration will turn to environmental and energy questions, such as the EPA an...

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Dems Readying Health, Spending Legislation For Obama's First Day

NY Times | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics

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Democratic Congressional leaders and the nascent Obama administration are moving quickly to assert control over federal policy, aiming to have economi...

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Environmentalists Fear Obama Will Forget Them In Economic Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

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There is a small but growing concern within environmental circles that the current economic crisis will push back some of the "green" agenda that Bara...

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Al Gore: "The Climate For Change"

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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In a New York Times op-ed, former Vice President Al Gore looks at Barack Obama's win through the lens of climate change, and offers a five-point plan ...

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What Can Environmentalists Expect from Obama?

David Roberts | Posted 12.07.2008 | Green

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Now everyone wants to know what he'll do. It's seems reasonable to expect that he'll stick with what seems to be his instinctive strategy: focus on the long game.

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Robert Kennedy Jr. On Obama Administration: If Asked I Will Serve

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Expressing deep satisfaction -- almost relief -- with the election of Barack Obama yesterday, Robert Kennedy Jr., the longtime environmental activist ...

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UN Climate Chief Seeks Obama Input In December Talks

The Age | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green

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The UN climate chief said Wednesday he was "very encouraged" by Barack Obama's stance on global warming, and said he hoped the US president-elect woul...

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Nuclear Power, Clean Coal, Cap And Trade, Biofuels: Comparing And Contrasting Obama And McCain On Energy

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home

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The San Francisco Chronicle recently declared that John McCain and Barack Obama are "like peas in a pod" on a major issue. The newspaper was talking a...

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Calling All Policy Gurus

Amanda Michel | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home

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We are tired of talking so much about lipstick and lapel pins. At OffTheBus - HuffPost's citizen-produced election coverage site - we are devoting the...

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