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Obama to detail stimulus spending on 'smart grid'

Reporting from Washington - President Obama and administration officials today will announce $3.4 billion in spending projects to modernize the nation's electric power system. The president will offer details on funding for the "smart grid" during an ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, EcoEarth News,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Christina Romer,  White House,  Joe Biden,  General Motors

U.S. Chamber of Commerce president shrugs off defections

Reporting from Washington - The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday brushed off decisions by a string of high-profile companies to break with the nation's leading business organization over what they considered its backward-looking ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, EcoEarth News,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  Pacific Gas & Electric,  Apple, Inc.,  PNM Resources, Inc.,  PG&E

Obama to shift focus to climate change

Reporting from Washington - After months of almost single-minded focus on healthcare, President Obama is about to shift the White House spotlight to global warming -- first with a speech to the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, then later in the ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, EcoEarth News,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Security fears used to sell climate bill

Reporting from Washington - After months of promoting President Obama's climate plan as a vehicle to create millions of clean-energy jobs, supporters of the legislation are increasingly pushing another strategy -- its benefits for national security. It' ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, EcoEarth News,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  John F. Kerry,  Heritage Foundation

United States: Offshore wind farm in Atlantic at least a year away

Reporting from Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and Washington -- For at least one more summer, vacationers on Martha's Vineyard won't be able to gaze across the water and see, far off on the horizon, the churning blades of offshore wind turbines -- no matter ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY AND CHRISTI PARSONS, EcoEarth News,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  Ken Salazar,  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Global warming: a modern 'Monkey Trial'?

Cast your mind back to high school history class and you may recall a watershed American courtroom drama, a 1925 case against a Tennessee biology teacher that gripped the nation by pitting Darwin's evolution theory against Biblical creationism. The ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  25 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  William Jennings Bryan,  Al Gore,  Clarence Darrow,  James Inhofe

U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks trial on global warming

Reporting from Washington - The nation's largest business lobby wants to put the science of global warming on trial. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, EcoEarth News,  25 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  William Jennings Bryan,  Clarence Darrow,  Barack Obama

House climate bill was flooded with last-minute changes

Surprisingly for a climate bill, there was also a provision making it harder to develop the vast wind-power potential of states like North Dakota -- a key element in President Obama's strategy to fight global warming. Some of the provisions could be ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, EcoEarth News,  20 Jul 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John Berger

EPA gives California emissions waiver

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called the decision a "huge step for our emerging green economy that will create thousands of new jobs and bring Californians the cars they want while reducing greenhouse gas emissions." Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, EcoEarth News,  30 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,  U.S. Congress,  Barbara Boxer,  Barack Obama

Obama lauds energy bill but warns against tariffs

significant drop in global trade, I think we have to be very careful about sending any protectionist signals." WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Sunday afternoon called a House-passed energy bill "an extraordinary first step" toward halting global ...

From JIM TANKERSLEY, Inside Bay Area,  28 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party

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