Weekly Mulch: Why is the U.S. Losing the Clean Energy Race to China? Blame the Climate Cranks
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao touched on energy issues in the bilateral summit between the two countries this week.
“I believe that as the two largest energy consumers and emitters of greenhouses gases, the United States and China have a responsibility to combat climate change by building on the [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Can Clean Energy Curb Climate Change? Probably Not.
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
During the State of the Union address earlier this week, President Barack Obama spoke at length about clean energy, with nary a mention of climate change. This is the new environment in which America’s energy policy is being made.
Just two years ago, Democrats were rallying to combat climate change, one [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Politics, Power, and the Environment Beyond BP
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Washington has a blind spot when it comes to the environment. BP and the oil spill brought the government’s failures into the spotlight, but the same problems crop up across industries: Corporations pollute water, blast through mountains, and pour carbon into the atmosphere with insufficient oversight. But no one—Congress, the [...]
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President Obama and The Oil Spill…
Tomorrow evening, President Obama is making an address to the American people regarding the mess in The Gulf.
Like many events in life – this one was not of his doing, nor is it something that he can have much control over. Yet for now – he is our leader, President of The United States. It [...]
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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Spill Stalls Climate Bill
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
“There’s a dead dolphin on this beach,” Mother Jones‘ Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It’s one snapshot of the harm visited on the Gulf Coast by the BP oil spill. Back in Washington, the Senate climate bill, which would put the country on a path to cleaner [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Obama’s Responsibility for the BP Oil Spill
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
President Barack Obama is in Louisiana today, and BP is saying it will know in 48 hours if its attempt to “top kill” the leaking oil well in the Gulf Coast by pouring mud and cement over it has worked.
If the scramble to stop the leak has ended, the slog [...]
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More Climate Politics….
The on going struggle to find a balanced measure to bring to the floor of the US Senate hit yet another bump in the road last week as Senator Lindsey Graham (R) South Carolina has announced that he is no longer going to participate in the current process. This is very frustrating to say the [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Off-shore drilling, auto emissions, mountaintop mining from Obama administration
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
President Barack Obama announced this week that his administration would open areas from Delaware to Florida and in Alaska to offshore drilling for gas and oil. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation also released new guidelines for auto emissions to cut carbon emissions, and the EPA [...]
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Obama – Vetoes Coal State Democrats!
Well – not yet – but……….
As of the past week or so several Coal State members of Congress have introduced legislation that would prevent the EPA from moving forward with limits on emissions – which it currently has the legal right to do under The Clean Air Act.
According to Democratic Congressman from Virgina Rick Boucher [...]
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