thenation.com - 12/26/2008
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By proposing a $100 billion "green stimulus" package to create jobs and cut carbon emissions, President-elect Obama has wisely decided not to let the economic crisis get in the way of addressing climate change. He may even see the crisis as a way of tackling climate change faster. In September ...
businessweek.com - 1/1/2009
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BusinessWeek: The scent of fast money in Washington
has all manner of corporate interests scrambling to show...
they can create jobs, especially green ones. The prize is a slice of the Obama Administration's stimulus package, expected to range from $675 ...
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High hurdles for Obama's green stimulus
msnbc.msn.com - 12/24/2008
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In one of the first internal struggles of
the incoming Obama administration, environmentalists and smart-growth advocates are...
trying to shift the priorities of the economic stimulus plan that will be introduced in Congress next month away from ...
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'Green' jobs compete for stimulus aid - Washington Post- ...
guardian.co.uk - 1/3/2009
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Current approaches to deal with climate change are
ineffectual, one of the world's top climate scientists said...
today in a personal new year appeal to Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on the urgent need to tackle global warming. With less than ...
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Nasa's James Hansen warns Barack Obama on climate change
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A Green New Deal? - Dec 26
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... even as he vastly expanded it. As a study recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research puts it, “Before 1932, the administration of public relief was widely regarded as politically corrupt,” and the New Deal’s huge relief programs “offered an opportunity for corruption unique in the nation’s history.” Yet “by 1940, charges of corruption and political manipulation had diminished considerably.” How did F.D.R. manage to make big government so clean? (26 December 2008) A Green Stimulus for the People Lisa Margonelli, The Nation ... so far Obama has stuck to the ...
Lisa Margonelli: A Green Stimulus for the People
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... families saw their credit and standard of living erode so that by last summer 70 percent of them told the National Energy Assistance Directors Association that rising energy prices had changed their food-buying habits. Many said they skipped payments on credit cards, utilities, mortgages and auto loans to pay for gas, which meant that rising energy costs had spilled over into already shaky mortgage and credit markets. In 2008 utilities cut off 8 percent of accounts for nonpayment. The Nation
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