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Obama Makes Same Energy Mistakes As Every President Back to Nixon: Won't Tax Properly
We weren't big fans of Obama's energy speech of a couple weeks back, given its general lack of vision and tired similarity to energy speeches by the last eight presidents in focusing on US energy independence. There's another similarity between Obama
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Barack Obama Calls Out "Climate Change Deniers in Congress"
President Obama isn't exactly a firebrand -- especially when it comes to climate issues. He's been pretty detached on the issue, keeping his distance even as clean energy and climate legislation triumphantly passed the House of
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35% of Americans Feel Obama is Doing "Too Little" on Climate
Okay, so it's not anywhere close to a majority. And it's still pretty dismal that 65% of the nation is contented with what's among the most nonexistent climate policy in the industrialized world -- and that 22% of Americans think
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House Votes Yes For Polluters, No To A Clean Environment For The American People
The Senate voted against this yesterday: As expected, the House of Representatives voted yesterday (255-172) to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act--something which was
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Obama's Energy Speech Adeptly Avoided Mentioning Any Policy Option That'll Do Some Good
Sometimes first thought best thought yields good results, but with Obama's last energy speech a week behind us some distance has yielded two spot on and well articulated responses to the President's old-as-new-again energy stance that are worth paying
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Obama Announces 2012 Presidential Campaign. Should Greens Care?
So, it turns out that Barack Obama is running for president in 2012. Who'd have thought? His camp made the announcement today, and released this video about how supporters from his 2008 campaign still really like him and why you should too. Some of the
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What Should Obama's Environmental Policy Platform Look Like For 2012?
President Obama has just announced, to no one's surprise, that he will be running for a second term in office, with the campaign website says they'd like the start a conversation with supports to help "shape our
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Obama Drops In on Kids' Science Fair at the American Museum of Natural History
President Obama took another step in encouraging kids concentrating in science subjects earlier this week, only this time it was a surprise. At the New York City Science and Engineering Fair at the Museum of Natural History on Tuesday,
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Does Obama Have a 'Secret' Plan to Adapt Nation to Climate Change?
Obama's middling ability to articulate his vision for the nation's energy future is certainly eclipsed by his inability to explain to the American people the vast threat posed by global climate change. Ever since the
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Obama's Energy Speech: Cut Oil Imports, Keep on Fracking, and Fire Up the Nuke Plants
President Obama just wrapped up his speech on energy, and it played out largely as expected -- he called for more clean energy, electric cars, and high speed rail. He assured us all that nuclear power was still safe and still part
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White House Unveils 6-Year, $53 Billion High Speed Rail Plan
Call it a "rail shot" -- with all the space race allusions being tossed around by the administration of late, this time the term would live up to expectations. The White House has announced a "comprehensive
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DOE Launches Effort to Bring Cost of Solar Down 75% by 2020
In the days following Obama's State of the Union address, Stephen Chu took center stage in the energy arena to announce a "Sun shot" -- a government-funded effort to innovate the technology necessary
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See, Obama Still Cares About Climate Change (Video)
See? Obama still cares about climate change! Despite keeping largely silent on the issue over the last year or two, failing to speak up to save the climate bill from certain death in the Senate, and not giving it any mention at all during his State of
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Clean Energy Alone Does Not Equal Climate Action
When I wrote my reactions to Obama's State of the Union address last week, I mentioned how disappointing it was that he didn't take the chance to engage the American public on the issue of climate change. The
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In Major Speeches, Obama Talks Climate Less than Clinton, Bush
There are some that herald Barack Obama as the greenest president in a long time. And it's true -- his administration has done more than any other in recent memory to reign in pollution and promote clean energy. Aggressive
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Steven Chu: Solar Should be 4 Times Cheaper by 2020
I just got off a conference call with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, in which he discussed the vision for clean energy President Obama put forth in last night's State of the Union address. In that
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President Obama Continues Squandering Opportunities to Show Environmental Leadership
By now you're likely well aware that despite talking about clean energy and jobs, President Obama made no mention of climate change or environmental issues as such during yesterday's State of the Union address.
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Obama's State of the Union: 80% of US Should Run on Clean Energy by 2035
Obama just wrapped up the 2011 State of the Union address, and one of the clear highlights was his call for massive national investment in new technologies -- especially clean energy. Referring to renewable energy, Obama said that "this was our
