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Drumbeat: September 20, 2009
The Oil Drum — Lester R. Brown: On Energy, We're Finally Walking the Walk The United States has entered a new energy era, ending a century of rising carbon emissions. As the U.S. delegation prepares for the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, it does so from a surprisingly strong position, one based on a dramatic 9 percent drop in U.S. carbon emissions over the past two years and the promise of further huge reductions. ...For a country where oil and coal use have been growing for more than a century, the fall since 2007 is startling. Last year, oil use dropped 5 percent, coal 1 percent and overall carbon emissions 3 percent. Projections for this ...

Energy and Global Warming News for September 21st: Obama to shift focus as climate talks approach
Climate Progress — ... facing Obama and his counterparts…. See also Todd Stern testifies “Nothing the U.S. can do is more important for the international negotiation process than passing robust, comprehensive clean energy legislation as soon as possible…. President Obama and the Secretary of State, along with our entire Administration, are committed to action on this issue.” And here’s some good news that the administration is also working the issue behind the scenes: White House Quietly Lobbies Senate on Climate Bill Climate-change ...

Energy and Global Warming News for September 21st: Obama to shift focus as climate talks approach
Worldchanging: Bright Green — ... And here’s some good news that the administration is also working the issue behind the scenes: White House Quietly Lobbies Senate on Climate Bill Climate-change legislation has stalled on Capitol Hill, but the White House’s unofficial “Green Cabinet” is quietly trying to revive the effort by lobbying dozens of senators. President Obama has dispatched Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to Capitol Hill. White House aides said that they and other executive branch staffers, such as ...