Articles by Amanda Little
Amanda Little is author of Power Trip: The Story of America's Love Affair with Energy. She is a contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and a writer-in-residence in the English department at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches investigative journalism and creative nonfiction.
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Clinton, late convert to climate-change cause, now preaching up a storm
He wasn’t known as the eco-warrior president. Nor was he a visionary on energy independence. But Bill Clinton is now using his legendary charisma and silver tongue to help mobilize the shift away from fossil fuels. Bill gets heated up over climate. Photo: Clinton Presidential Foundation. “[T]he decisions we make or fail to make in […]
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Bush’s pick to head the USDA is a big ethanol booster
At a White House ceremony last week announcing the nomination of Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns (R) to succeed Ann Veneman as agriculture secretary, President Bush called his pick “a strong proponent of alternative energy sources, such as ethanol and biodiesel,” later adding that “in a new term, we’ll continue policies that are pro-growth, pro-jobs, and […]
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Bush admin isn’t putting money where its mouth is on “clean coal”
When pressed on climate change, the Bush administration is fond of citing “clean coal” technology as the wave of the energy future. Even some enviros are starting to grudgingly acknowledge the technology’s potential for good. Coal: Can you dig it? Photo: NREL. But all Bush’s talk doesn’t appear to be translating into the funding needed […]
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McCain ruffles GOP feathers with continued calls for action on climate change
McCain gets heated up. Presiding over his final hearing as chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee last week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered a feisty swan song assuring GOP colleagues and environmentalists alike that he won’t be giving up his fight for climate-change regulations anytime soon — even if the Bush administration […]
