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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Obama Stimulus: For Clean Energy, a Patchwork of Investments
watthead.blogspot.com 1/26/2009 — By Adam Solomon Zemel. Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Institute. Barack Obama has finally been sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. For once, there is no debate among pundits or Capitol Hill insiders about what ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

Jesse Jenkins: From Rhetoric to Reality: Is Obama's Clean Energy Goal Really That Ambitious?
huffingtonpost.com 2/3/2009 — By Adam Solomon Zemel and Jesse Jenkins. Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute Barack Obama's stance on energy issues is not the easiest to discern. While Obama the orator's language regarding energy has been inspiring - he's ...