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Obama's Environmental Team Takes Shape
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/16/2008
Obama's Environmental Team Takes Shape
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Obama's environment team includes Steven Chu -- a Nobel laureate who spoke about enhanced geothermal systems earlier this year.

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Dot Earth:  Warming: Pollution or Technology Problem?

Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science Adviser
blogs.sciencemag.org - 12/18/2008
Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science Adviser
— blogs.sciencemag.org — John Holdren Credit: AAAS Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science adviser. A top adviser to the Obama campaign and international expert on energy and climate, Holdren ... (more) Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science ...

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money.cnn.com - 12/15/2008
Obama names energy, environment team - Dec. 15, 2008
— money.cnn.com — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama unveiled his energy and environment team on Monday, ushering in what's likely to be a dramatic shift in the way the nation tackles the challenges of climate change, energy efficiency and the ... (more) Obama names energy, environment team - Dec. 15, 2008

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guardian.co.uk - 12/23/2008
Obama team plans biggest boost in history to save American economy | World news ...
— guardian.co.uk — Barack Obama's administration in waiting signalled yesterday that it was preparing the biggest economic stimulus in US history to avert mass unemployment in a stuttering economy that could face the toughest recession in half a century. In a programme ... (more) Obama team plans biggest boost in history to save ...

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Warming: Pollution or Technology Problem?
Dot Earth — ... that President-elect Barack Obama formally introduced this evening in Chicago. Can Mr. Obama mediate between those putting regulation or innovation first? Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy , is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap-and-trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil-fuel use, and rule-making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th-century basket of air pollutants). ...

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Obama names energy secretary, environmental team
reuters.com 12/16/2008 — Reuters: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose a Nobel physics laureate to be his energy secretary and picked a former top federal environmental regulator to coordinate his energy and environmental policies. Steven Chu, who won the 1997 ...
Obama's new energy team raises hope for US environment
guardian.co.uk 12/12/2008 — Barack Obama's choice of a Nobel laureate in physics to head his energy team, revealed on Wednesday evening, has raised expectations of a strong drive to roll back George Bush's policies on climate change and environmental protection. The choice of ...
Obama to Name Energy Team, Cleantech Cheers
earth2tech.com 12/16/2008 — The news wires are reporting that president-elect Barack Obama has made some key staffing choices when it comes to fighting climate change, energy policy and creating green jobs. Obama is reported to have chosen Steven Chu, a physicist who heads up ...
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 ...
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 ...
Questions for Obama's Science Team
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com 12/19/2008 — What would you like to ask the science team advising the 44th president?
Scientists heartened by potential appointees
washingtonindependent.com 12/19/2008 — Washington Independent: After President-elect Barack Obama fills out his cabinet appointments, he will turn to appointing new leadership for the government agencies with the power to regulate industry--a process that will likely bring an end to what ...
Vilsack and Obama: Farmer in Chief my Ass!
sharonastyk.com 12/17/2008 — So Tom Vilsack is going to be Secretary of Agriculture, hmmm… Let’s see, rabid ethanol proponent…check! Enthusiastic supporter of GMOs and biotechnologies…check! Totally indebted to and under the thumb of ...
Obama hears cheers for energy team
iht.com 12/16/2008 — International Herald Tribune: President-elect Barack Obama was planning Monday to name an energy and environmental team that advocacy groups praised as showing seriousness about conservation and global warming. But the economic crisis will make the ...
MotherJones Blog: Obama's First Policy Retreat?
motherjones.com 12/3/2008 — Obama talked about a windfall profits tax as early as April. As crude oil prices topped $110 a barrel, Obama promised to "put a windfall profits tax on oil companies and use it to help ... families pay their heating and cooling bills and reduce energy ...
Energy Secretary Pick Has Vocally Supported Alternative Fuels — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 12/15/2008
WASHINGTON — Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for energy secretary, has been a vocal advocate for more research into alternative energy, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is ...
Steven Chu: Physicists Cheer New Energy Secretary — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 12/14/2008
Science Insider reports on the major shift that will occur at the Department of Energy when Steven Chu takes over: Steve Chu could be a groundbreaking energy secretary for the energy research efforts of President-elect Barack Obama's ...
David Roberts: Obama: 'We Understand that the Facts Demand Bold Action' — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 12/16/2008
Obama just got done officially announcing his energy and environment team. A few things that jumped out at me: Not for nothing: the guy's a rhetorical Jedi. Unless I'm mistaken, the term "clean coal" was not uttered once . Of Steven ...
David Roberts: Progressivism Is Pragmatism: Steven Chu at Department of Energy — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 12/16/2008
grist.org I've been reading the discussion sparked by Chris Hayes' latest piece in The Nation -- " The Pragmatist ," about Obama's much-discussed pragmatism -- with great interest. Pragmatism is a subject dear to my heart and ...
Clint Wilder: Troy the Turbine Builder: Creating the New Energy Economy — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 12/19/2008
For better or worse, we all know Joe the Plumber. But have you heard of Troy the Turbine Builder? That would be Troy Galloway of Hollsopple, Pennsylvania, who works at the Gamesa wind turbine plant in the nearby town of Ebensburg. Unlike Joe, Mr. ...