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The Obama Playbook on Energy and Ethics is the worst Three Stooges episode ever

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Tarsands, Water, tagged Barack Obama, drought, Keystone Pipeline, keystone xl, Solyndra, texas drought, United States Department of State, water, white house on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Solyndra was the pie in the face, but Keystone XL is the rake in the yard the White House needs to avoid. Approval of controversial pipeline is bad for the environment, and bad politics, as it would offend not just environmentalists, but voters of all stripes across America’s heartland who would have the pipeline run [...]

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Why Does Rice play Texas?: climate change, EPA smog rules, TarSands pipeline, drought/fires edition

Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Tarsands, tagged Barack Obama, drought, EPA, football, JFK, Keystone Pipeline, longhorns, Oil sands, rice university, texas drought, United States Environmental Protection Agency, University of Texas, white house, Why does Rice play Texas?, wildfires on September 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The wildfires, Obama’s cave-in on the EPA’s smog rules, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protests, Hurricane Irene, and our continued drought and economic malaise puts into focus several things that have been ruminating in my head all weekend, and it all comes back to this one question– Why does Rice play Texas? And how does this relate to clean air, climate change, and a switch to a clean energy economy?

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NRC Staff Should Stop Balking, Provide Fire Safety Information, Groups Say

Posted in Global Warming, tagged atomic safety and licensi ng board, Barack Obama, CPS Energy, georgia, matagorda county, NRC, nrg energy, nuclear reactors, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Public Citizen, SEED Coalition, South Texas Project, sustainable energy economic development, toshiba, vogtle plant on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Agency Is Refusing to Adhere to an Order to Release Document That Would Help Determine Safety of New Nuclear Reactors WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should stop balking and provide a critical document that would reveal how the owners of a Texas nuclear plant expansion project plan to deal with a fire [...]

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New video on Energy Efficiency

Posted in Efficiency, tagged Barack Obama, Coal, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, Nuclear, stimulus, youtube on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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If You Lead, They Will Follow

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Barack Obama, Carbon Dioxide, China, climate change, developing nations, emissions, Global Warming, green new deal, grist, India, japan, leadership, prime minister, stimulus package, taro aso on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Throughout the global warming debate, I have often heard an argument I like to call “the China cop-out.” It goes somewhere along the lines of, “Developing nations like China and India are growing so quickly, adding so many new coal-fired power plants, and emitting so much carbon dioxide that it isn’t worth it for the [...]

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New EPA head will address toxic hot spots around schools

Posted in Toxics, tagged Air Quality, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, Schools, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, toxic hot spots, USA Today on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Exactly a month ago today, I was distressed and depressed by USA Today’s investigative report on toxic air quality and America’s schools. But this morning, I was cheered by USA Today’s announcement that… Obama’s pick to head the EPA has pledged to address this very issue! They report, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the [...]

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Obama’s Mistake on Public Financing (and how McCain is skirting the law, too)

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, John McCain, public financing on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today’s New York Times reported that life is not all peaches and cream for the Obama campaign after they opted out of the presidential public financing system. (See Article “Straining to Reach Goal, Obama Presses Donors“) Pushing a fund-raiser later this month, a finance staff member sent a sharply worded note last week to Illinois [...]

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