Turning Rhetoric to Reality?
watthead.org 10/27/2009 — Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute By Yael Borofsky and Jesse Jenkins President Barack Obama spoke eloquently to an audience at MIT on Friday about clean energy, innovation, and the American entrepreneurial spirit. Unfortunately, the masterful public speaker was disappointingly ...

Obama, China, global warming
salon.com 12/4/2008 — Dec. 4, 2008 | Has any U.S. president come into office with higher expectations from foreign countries? Perhaps the greatest expectation is that Barack Obama will reverse George W. Bush's all-too-successful eight-year effort to thwart international ...

Nasa's James Hansen warns Barack Obama on climate change
guardian.co.uk 1/3/2009 — 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 ...

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 ...

Copenhagen climate talks: No deal, we're out of time, Obama warns
guardian.co.uk 20 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 ...

Will Obama Put Real Money on the Table for Clean Energy?
watthead.blogspot.com 2/24/2009 — Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute For those paying close attention, there was a nugget of critical energy and climate policy news buried at the tail end of a Saturday New York Times story focused on President Obama's budget plans: On energy policy, Mr. Obama's budget will show ...

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 ...

Will America Lose the Clean Energy Race?
watthead.blogspot.com 7/27/2009 — “Will America lose the clean-energy race?” That’s the question my Breakthrough Institute colleague Teryn Norris and I raise in an op ed featured in today’s San Francisco Chronicle . You can also read an extended version at the Huffington Post . With China , South Korea and Japan all ...

China takes first step towards carbon target
guardian.co.uk 9/24/2009 — President Hu Jintao vows to greatly decrease intensity from country's economy and invest in green energy The world inched closer to an elusive deal to combat climate change yesterday, when China, the world's biggest polluter, made its most ...

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 ...

Green Bill's Biggest Test Awaits In The Senate — Forbes.com: Energy News 6/27/2009
Rural opponents have a greater say than they did in the House.

Raymond J. Learsy: Our Lob(obotomized)bied Congress' Energy Bill Excludes Our Most Efficient, Cleanest, Newly Plentiful Energy Source: Natural Gas — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 6/28/2009
It is a further example of the deep dysfunction of our government. Bad enough that Wall Street was bailed out while dragging down the economic standing of the nation together with trillions of its citizens dollars and only now to find Wall Street ...

White House Announces New Lighting Standards — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 6/29/2009
WASHINGTON — Aiming to keep the focus on climate change legislation, President Barack Obama put a plug in for administration efforts to make lamps and lighting equipment use less energy. "I know light bulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple ...