Search Results for "obama"
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New Converts to Carbon Tax: Welcome Aboard, Now Start Rowing (September 1, 2010)
(Note: NYT DotEarth blogger Andy Revkin linked to this post today in a piece that has more from Bill Gates on carbon pricing. Click here. – C.K., Sept 2.)
Last week, Bill Gates. This week, Bjorn Lomborg. With the world’s #1 software magnate and the man whom the Guardian labeled “the world’s most high-profile climate change [...] -
More accidents await with President Obama’s errant energy policies (July 4, 2010)
“Cheap” Dirty Energy Policy Fosters “Accidents” (Brent Blackwelder, Post Carbon)
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Senator: In private meeting, Obama seemed strongly committed to carbon pricing (June 29, 2010)
Sen. Merkley: Obama committed to carbon pricing (Wash Post blog)
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Pundit Samuelson Chides Obama for Ignoring Carbon Tax (June 22, 2010)
Pundit Samuelson Chides Obama for Ignoring Carbon Tax (WaPo)
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Former Labor Sec’y Reich’s Carbon-Tax Plea to Obama (June 19, 2010)
Former Labor Sec’y Reich’s Carbon-Tax Plea to Obama (LA Progressive)
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No ‘Cap-and-Trade’ in Obama Address (June 16, 2010)
No ‘Cap-and-Trade’ in Obama Address (NYT – Dot Earth)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/us/politics/16obama-text.html?pagewanted=print (June 15, 2010)
Text of Obama Oval Office Oil Speech (White House via NYT)
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Dems see gulf oil crisis as chance for change (June 15, 2010)
BP Disaster: Time For Obama To Call for Carbon Tax (SF Chronicle)
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Mainstream Greens Mostly Mum on Obama’s Oil Passivity (June 14, 2010)
Mainstream Greens Mostly Mum on Obama’s Oil Passivity (FireDogLake via Common Dreams)
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Obama Likens BP Spill to 9/11 But Still Misses Main Message (June 14, 2010)
In an Oval Office interview last Friday with Politico columnist Roger Simon, President Obama likened the Gulf oil disaster’s impact on the national psyche to that of 9/11:
In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to [...] -
Gulf oil spill and the political spillover in the Senate energy debate (June 11, 2010)
Obama Should Insist On Making Coal & Oil More Expensive (Chrst’n Sci Monitor)
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Famed Framer Lakoff Endorses Cap-and-Dividend (June 8, 2010)
Famed Framer Lakoff Endorses Cap-and-Dividend (Truthout)
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Will Obama stand up to Big Energy in deeds as well as words? (June 8, 2010)
Will Obama Stand up to Big (Dirty) Energy? (Bill McKibben, Grist)
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Obama needs a carbon tax (June 3, 2010)
Obama needs a carbon tax (St. Petersburg Times)
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NYT Columnist Bob Herbert: After Gulf Disaster, “We Need A Carbon Tax” (June 1, 2010)
It’s hard not to turn one’s head from the carnage the Deepwater Horizon oil is wreaking in the Gulf of Mexico.
The loss of human life, the loss of human livelihood, the enormous ecological destruction and loss of ecosystem services, are heartbreaking. The helplessness of British Petroleum and the oil industry to stanch the ongoing eruption [...] -
Join the Earth Day Climate “Revival” This Sunday (April 20, 2010)
There are good reasons, ranging from corporate sponsorship to vapidity, to have been cynical about recent Earth Day observances. But there are even more compelling reasons — the imminence of the climate crisis and the recent gain in denialists’ political standing — to put cynicism aside and come to Washington this Sunday for what organizers [...]
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Obama’s Second Chance on the Predominant Moral Issue of This Century (April 6, 2010)
Obama’s Second Chance on the Predominant Moral Issue of This Century (James Hansen, Huff Post)
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Don’t Throw Our 40-Year Old “Grandmother” of Environmental Law (the Clean Air Act) Under the Train! (April 5, 2010)
Whatever it’s worth as climate policy, EPA’s plodding progress on GHG regulations and the threat of more, has “focused the minds” of many Senators on climate…. [T]he combination of some kinds of regulations with a steadily-rising carbon pollution price can be synergistic…
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Obama, Key Senators Make Their Pitch for Climate and Energy Bill (March 11, 2010)
Obama, Key Senators Make Pitch for Climate & Energy Bill (NYT-Greenwire))
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Obama pushes senators for climate bill (March 9, 2010)
Obama pushes senators for climate bill (AP)
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Renewed effort for climate change legislation focus of White House meeting (March 9, 2010)
Obama summons Kerry, Graham, Lieberman to White House on Climate (FSR)
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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)
