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23/5/2013
President
Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem. If Congress sticks to its policy of obstruction and willful ignorance,
Obama should use his ...
17/5/2013
Advocates of forceful action on climate change have long held a trump card. The primary source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. is coal plants, and -since the Supreme Court has determined that those emissions are a pollutant -the EPA is ...
17/5/2013
With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against
Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other ...
10/5/2013
In a surprise move, the eight Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday blocked a floor vote on President
Obama`s nominee, Gina McCarthy, as U.S. EPA Administrator. In doing so the Republican senators broke ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
2/5/2013
President
Obama's new political group, Organizing for Action, last week released a new video that mocks Republican lawmakers for appearing to play down or dismiss concerns about climate change. Some of the clips are fairly interesting -- or ...
28/4/2013
At Spring Creek Mine, a broad black seam of coal, reaching depths of 80 feet, runs like a subterranean river through arid, sagebrush-covered hills.
This is a world-class seam formed from the remnants of ferns, grasses and other plants ...
13/4/2013
Gina McCarthy presented herself as a pragmatic regulator during a hearing April 11 on her nomination as the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator, making few commitments to senators other than to assure them she would address their ...
7/4/2013
The Senate will hold a confirmation hearing next week for Gina McCarthy, President
Obama's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency in his second term. McCarthy, who is currently the assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and ...
30/3/2013
Last Friday, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a short report outlining various steps on climate change that President Barack
Obama could take during his second term. Facing political gridlock on ...
15/3/2013
The
Obama administration is leaning toward revising its landmark proposal to
regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, according to several individuals briefed on the matter, a move that would delay tougher restrictions and could ...
15/3/2013
President Barack
Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they have to consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways.The result could be significant delays ...
6/3/2013
President
Obama's selection of Gina McCarthy March 4 to be the Environmental Protection Agency's next administrator drew compliments from environmental advocates and industry sources, who described her as a pragmatist who listens to all interest ...
4/3/2013
President
Obama on Monday named two people to his cabinet who will be charged with making good on his threat to use the powers of the executive branch to tackle climate change and energy policy if Congress does not act quickly.Mr.
Obama ...
28/2/2013
It's been 114 days since Barack
Obama promised on the night of his re-election to protect future generations from – in his words – "the destructive power of a warming planet". It's been 38 days since he renewed and expanded on that promise on ...
22/2/2013
President Barack
Obama is tired of waiting for Congress to move on legislation to reduce
carbon emissions, and his administration is poised to move forward on actions to do just that—including a move that will effectively eliminate the ...
20/2/2013
The company that wants to build a controversial oil pipeline from western Canada to Texas said on Tuesday said that shutting down the oil sands at its source would have no measurable effect on global warming.
"You could shut down oil ...
20/2/2013
President Barack
Obama intends to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar ...
19/2/2013
In a shift in strategy, the company that wants to build an oil pipeline from western Canada to Texas said Tuesday that the project will have no measurable effect on global warming.
Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada's president for energy and ...
16/2/2013
President
Obama is expected by environmental advocates to name Gina McCarthy, the controversial chief of the Environmental Protection Agency's air
pollution arm, to head the agency.
The nomination of McCarthy, 58, who has served as the ...
16/2/2013
Heresy may have cost Bob Inglis his seat in the U.S. Congress. As a six-term Republican congressman from one of South Carolina’s most conservative districts, Inglis told an audience at a 2010 campaign event that he believed in human-caused ...
13/2/2013
U.S. President Barack
Obama urged Congress to pass sweeping "market-based" climate legislation - code for a cap-and-trade system or a
carbon tax - and threatened to
regulate aggressively if it did not.
In his annual State of the Union ...
13/2/2013
Though
Obama's 2013 State of the Union included the most extensive mention of climate change of any SOTU in history, the speech's energy and climate section was by no means its most moving portion. There were a few mentions of old Democratic ...
12/2/2013
President Barack
Obama Tuesday night pledged that if Congress refuses to take action to stem climate change, his administration would act unilaterally.
"I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate ...
12/2/2013
President
Obama followed up his Inaugural Address with more strong words for climate protection in his State of the Union, delivering the lengthiest soliloquy on climate change in presidential history.
"The 12 hottest years on record ...