Dave Burdick: Obama's First 100 Green Days
huffingtonpost.com 4/29/2009 — Barack Obama: The first ______ president. Can we put the word "green" in that blank? Hard to say, so early. But we may be off to a pretty good start. When Obama was elected president, some environmentalists believed it signaled the dawning of a ...

How green is Obama?
time.com 6/7/2009 — Time Magazine: Many environmentalists -- who spent the eight years of the Bush Administration in the cold -- would agree. Obama announced tough new national standards for automobile emissions and fuel efficiency that essentially settled a long-running ...

The Next Great Depression
borganic.org 7/26/2009 — (www.Borganic.org) “There is nothing inevitable about another depression. We have a simple choice: We can repeat the errors of the past or we can avoid them.” Those were my words, Feb. 8, 2008. It’s time for a “depression watch” update. Unfortunately, it’s mostly bad news. While another 12-year ...

Obama’s Plan: ‘It Begins With Energy.’
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 9/16/2009 — Obama’s Plan: ‘It Begins With Energy.’ Barack Obama In a sweeping address to both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Cabinet, President Barack Obama introduced his budgetary plan for the United States government, explaining it will “invest ...

Copenhagen climate talks: No deal, we're out of time, Obama warns
guardian.co.uk 22 days ago — Brown still hopes to salvage climate talks as US rules out binding targets Barack Obama acknowledged todaythat time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit in December and threw his support behind plans to ...

What action on the environment can we expect from Barack Obama in his first days as US president?
guardian.co.uk 1/21/2009 — Barack Obama is raising expectations of swift action on the environment - possibly within his first few days in the White House. At one of two green balls for this year's inauguration, environmentalists were already describing Obama as America's ...

Obama's Secret Meeting With the Oil Industry
i-r-squared.blogspot.com 6/1/2009 — Sometimes I come across information that isn't publicly known. That occasionally happens because I am digging, and I uncover something newsworthy. I can generally report on those kinds of things. But sometimes it is because someone sends me ...

White House bombshell: Cap-and-trade for drilling offshore … California!
climateprogress.org 5/5/2009 — Buried inside The New Yorker ’s profile of Peter Orszag, Obama’s budget director, is this stunning paragraph: Obama’s White House is filled with former members of Congress and congressional staffers. They are legislative strategists and ...

Barack Obama pleads with Congress to pass historic climate change bill
guardian.co.uk 6/26/2009 — Package that would slash US emissions likely to win approval despite opposition from Republicans and Democrat rebels Democrats in Congress are poised to vote through a sweeping energy and climate change bill tomorrow that could deliver on one of ...

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Give?”
globalshift.org 20 days ago — The editors of AMERICAblog , a site that covers “US politics overall with a particular focus on the Obama Administration, the radical right, and civil rights,” has proposed an interesting tactic to encourage President Obama, and the democratic party, to make good on their ...

Obama to open taps on clean tech stimulus funds — The most recent articles from BusinessGreen 10/27/2009
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 27 October 2009 at 10:24:00 President expected to announce up to $3.4bn in smart-grid grants as Department of Energy releases fresh climate science funding The Obama administration's campaign to ...

DOE funds extreme research projects — All MNN Content 10/27/2009
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, has selected 37 forward-thinking energy research projects to receive a portion of $151 million in funding. The $151 million is part of the $400 ...

John Kerry: 'We need your help' — All MNN Content 10/28/2009
Tonight on a group phone call organized by climate advocacy group Power Shift, John Kerry addressed hundreds of grass roots organizers about the urgency of the situation regarding the Senate climate bill, aka "Kerry-Boxer."   This morning the ...

Video: Obama putting billions toward 'smart' power grid — All MNN Content 10/28/2009
 

Daily Briefing: Wed. — All MNN Content 10/28/2009
POWER PLAY: Climate change, clean power and energy efficiency are back on the front burner of U.S. politics, it seems, as the Obama administration and Senate Democrats begin ramping up their climate efforts following a summer focused heavily on ...