Search Results for "obama"
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Obama Budget Drops Revenue Outlook for Carbon Trade – President Still Supports Cap and Trade Rather than Carbon Tax (February 3, 2010)
Obama Budget Drops Revenue Outlook for Carbon Trade – President Still Supports Cap and Trade Rather than Carbon Tax (Reuters)
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Obama Says Senate May Drop Cap and Trade, Pass Energy-Only Bill (February 3, 2010)
Obama Says Senate May Drop Cap and Trade, Pass Energy-Only Bill (NYT – Climate Wire)
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Progressive Democrats Endorse Rep. Larson’s Carbon Tax Bill (February 1, 2010)
In his State of the Union address, last week, President Obama called for passage of “a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.” The President did not mention cap-and-trade.
Several days ahead of Obama’s speech, Progressive Democrats of America, endorsed the straightforward, ramped-up [...] -
President Obama Reaches Out to Republicans to Get New Energy Legislation (February 1, 2010)
President Obama Reaches Out to Republicans to Get New Energy Legislation (Washington Post – Editorial)
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Beleaguered climate bill seeks lift from Obama (January 8, 2010)
Beleaguered climate bill seeks lift from Obama (Reuters)
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Obama admits global climate talks were disappointing (December 24, 2009)
Obama admits global climate talks were disappointing (ClimateWire)
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Swing Dems Give Obama Their Climate Bottom Line (December 3, 2009)
Swing Dems Give Obama Their Climate Bottom Line (NYT Green blog)
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Obama’s Climate Goals vs. the Senate’s (November 27, 2009)
Obama’s Climate Goals vs. the Senate’s — Three Views (NYT)
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Obama to Mention ‘Intention’ to Cut CO2 in Copenhagen Stopover (November 25, 2009)
Obama to Mention ‘Intention’ to Cut CO2 in Copenhagen Stopover (NYT)
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White House Adviser Rejects Idea of Limited Climate Package: Browner Says Obama Administration Is Seeking Measures to Include Entire Economy (November 21, 2009)
Obama Adviser Rejects Limited Climate Package for Utility Sector (WSJ)
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Obama Mired in Climate Bog (November 16, 2009)
Obama Mired in Climate Bog (NYT)
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Top Obama Climate Aide: No Bill Before Copenhagen (October 2, 2009)
Top Obama Climate Aide: No Bill Before Copenhagen (NYT)
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Earth to Obama: You can’t negotiate with the planet (October 2, 2009)
Earth to Obama: You can’t negotiate with the planet (Bill McKibben – TNR)
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Handicapping a Return to Copenhagen in December (October 2, 2009)
Handicapping a Return to Copenhagen in December (NYT dotEarth)
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On Energy, Obama Finds Broad Support (August 29, 2009)
On Energy, Obama Finds Broad Support, But Cap-and-Trade Bill Is Harder Sell (Wash Post)
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(Some) Carbon Tax Advocates Are Serious (August 28, 2009)
CTC rep James Handley’s comment on columnist Eric Pooley’s recent piece “Exxon Works Up New Recipe for Frying the Planet” (Bloomberg) sparked this illuminating, constructive exchange.
Dear Mr. Pooley,
Thanks for your article. Climate crisis deniers are indeed doing great harm. Are they really changing tactics from bogus science to bogus economics or just using both? I [...] -
What Can Replace Faltering Cap-and-Trade? (August 20, 2009)
Is Waxman-Markey doomed? Revulsion at the special favors and sheer complexity built into the 1,400-page bill that squeaked through the House in June has been building nationwide this summer. Now, a Washington Post editorial signals the impending collapse of not just the bill but of cap-and-trade as the central mechanism for controlling U.S. greenhouse gas [...]
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Obama Getting Big Things (Including Cap-Trade) Wrong (August 17, 2009)
Obama Getting Big Things (Including Cap-Trade) Wrong (Ken Silber on David Frum’s blog)
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Obama Needs a Move to the Middle (Including a Carbon Tax) (July 22, 2009)
Obama Needs a Move to the Middle (Including a Carbon Tax) (WSJ – OpEd)
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Obama and Environmentalists (July 21, 2009)
Obama and Environmentalists (Bill Moyers Journal)
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LBJ/HHH Aide to Obama: Scrap ‘Messy’ Cap/Trade for a Carbon Tax (July 17, 2009)
LBJ/HHH Aide to Obama: Scrap ‘Messy’ Cap/Trade for a Carbon Tax (WSJ)
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Disillusioned Enviro’s Turn on Obama as Compromiser (July 10, 2009)
Disillusioned Enviro’s Turn on Obama as Compromiser (NYT)
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Obama’s drive for climate change bill hits delay (July 9, 2009)
Climate change bill hits delay (WashPost)
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G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change (July 9, 2009)
Guest Post by Jim Hansen
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, but he writes on this policy-related topic as a private citizen. This post first appeared on Huffington Post on July 9.
It didn’t take long for the counterfeit climate bill known as Waxman-Markey to push back against President Obama’s agenda. [...] -
Obama Opposes Trade Sanctions in Climate Bill (June 29, 2009)
Obama Opposes Trade Sanctions in Climate Bill (NYT)
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Rep. Doggett on Waxman-Markey: “I Cannot Support It.” (June 26, 2009)
Following is the statement delivered by Rep. Lloyd Doggett during today’s House floor debate on the Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” (H.R. 2454, or “ACESA”). Rep. Doggett, a Democrat, has represented Texas’s 25th CD (central Texas, including Austin) since 1995, and is a senior member of the House Ways and Means [...]
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Obama defends climate bill’s cap-and-trade plan (June 25, 2009)
Obama defends cap-and-trade plan (SFGate)
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Obama Urges Passage of Climate Bill (June 24, 2009)
Obama Urges Passage of Climate Bill (NYT)
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Obama and Cap-and-Trade on Legislative Tightrope (May 25, 2009)
Obama and Cap-and-Trade on Legislative Tightrope (NYT)
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Good News: There’s a Climate Bill. Bad News: It Stinks. (May 20, 2009)
Guest post by Daphne Wysham, originally posted on AlterNet. Daphne is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, co-director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network, and co-host of Earthbeat Radio.
First, the good news: One of the most comprehensive pieces of energy and climate legislation ever drafted by members of the U.S. Congress [...] -
Climate and Policy Experts Warn Watered Down Cap-and-Trade Bill Won’t Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change (May 15, 2009)
The Carbon Tax Center and the Climate Crisis Coalition issued this press release today:
[Washington, DC] “The revised Waxman-Markey climate bill is too watered down to qualify as a positive step for avoiding catastrophic climate disruption,” said Dr. James Hansen, leading climate scientist and prominent advocate of a revenue-neutral carbon tax to curb climate change.Hansen was [...]
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Regional Disparities
As debate over climate legislation heats up in the 111th Congress, some members are voicing concern that measures to impose a price on carbon emissions will disproportionately burden energy users in their district or state. “We’re looking for some type of regional equity in whatever they propose,” said Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) during Energy and [...]
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Lipstick on a Pig? (May 12, 2009)
Buzzwords: Rephrasing Obama’s Lexicon, in today’s LA Times, describes Obama administration efforts to change the words describing its cap-and-trade proposal — “Words that have been vetted in focus groups and polls are seeping into the White House lexicon, while others considered too scary or confounding are falling away.” According to the LA Times:
Now when Obama [...] -
12 Reasons for Cap-and-trade’s Popularity in the Climate Policy Community (May 8, 2009)
Guest post by Michael Hoexter, Ph.D., LEED-AP
Michael blogs about climate and energy policy and marketing issues at www.greenthoughts.us. Through his work selling energy efficiency programs to businesses in California, he concluded that cap-and-trade’s carbon price volatility does not provide a strong price signal to CFOs and other financial decision-makers to invest in energy efficiency. [...] -
European Union Climate Chief Warns Obama Emissions Goals May Not Be Ambitious Enough (May 7, 2009)
EU Climate Chief: Obama Emissions Goals May Not Be Ambitious Enough (NYT – Green Inc.)
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Parsing the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill (April 21, 2009)
The Larson carbon tax bill is the hands-down winner, meeting the “gold standard” in every category.
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Obama Energy Chief Discusses Climate (April 14, 2009)
Obama Energy Chief Discusses Climate (NYT – Green Inc. Blog)
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Ken Green on Obama’s Perilous First Carbon Step (April 14, 2009)
Ken Green on Obama’s Perilous First Carbon Step (AEI Journal)
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Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More Cautious (April 11, 2009)
Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More Cautious (NYT)
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Thomas Friedman – Show Us the Ball (April 8, 2009)
Thomas L. Friedman’s column in today’s New York Times, Show Us the Ball, should be must reading in the White House and on Capital Hill. Following up on a series of excellent columns urging passage of a revenue-neutral carbon tax, Friedman once again incisively states the case for a carbon tax. We quote some of [...]
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“Simplicity Matters” — Tom Friedman on Rep. Larson’s Carbon Tax Bill (April 8, 2009)
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman has written more than a dozen columns urging U.S. leaders to enact revenue-neutral taxes on carbon dioxide. We’ve compiled excerpts and links for some of them, here. His column today, Show Us The Ball, is so forceful, as well as timely in its praise for Rep. Larson’s carbon [...]
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Recession Killing Obama Climate Plan (March 20, 2009)
US News & World Report Blogger Sees Advantage to Carbon Tax (Capitol Commerce)
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This Is News? WSJ: Hacks and Handout-Seekers Hate O’s Climate Plan (March 13, 2009)
This Is News? WSJ: Hacks and Handout-Seekers Hate Obama’s Climate Plan (Gristmill)
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Has Obama Killed Carbon Cap and Trade? (March 12, 2009)
Has Obama Killed Carbon Cap and Trade? (American Spectator)
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Warren Buffett: Obama Carbon-Tax Idea ‘Regressive’ (March 9, 2009)
Warren Buffett: Obama Carbon-Tax Idea ‘Regressive’ (Chicago Tribune – The Swamp)
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A Carbon Tax Is Better Than Cap-And-Trade (March 6, 2009)
A Carbon Tax Is Better Than Cap-And-Trade (Forbes – Bruce Bartlett Column)
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Greens Speak Out on Obama’s Plans for Carbon Emissions Trading (March 4, 2009)
Greens Speak Out on Obama’s Plans for Carbon Emissions Trading (US Carbon Report)
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Obama’s Climate Exchange Is A Gift To GE (March 4, 2009)
Obama’s Climate Exchange Is A Gift To GE (Business Insider)
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Duke Energy Chief Says Obama’s Plan Would Raise Bills (March 2, 2009)
Duke Energy Chief Says Obama’s Plan Would Raise Bills (Bloomberg)
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The Obama Climate Proposal — A Giant Step Forward (March 1, 2009)
The Carbon Tax Center applauds President Obama’s proposal to cap emissions, use market forces to reduce emissions, and return revenues through payroll tax credits. The proposal, as outlined this week, is a huge step forward from the Lieberman-Warner pork-barrel cap-and-trade fiasco last year and moves the discussion closer to the “gold standard” of a revenue-neutral [...]
