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A real path to energy independence
Proposition 1A passed 53 percent to 47 percent in California on Tuesday. The network will eventually extend from Sacramento through San Francisco and L.A., to San Diego. The bonds authorized by the proposition provide for about $10 billion or one-third of the cost for the whole system. In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, […]
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John Doerr recommends Bill Joy for chief technologist
Clean energy investor John Doerr advises Barack Obama to hire Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, as the nation’s first chief technology officer (a position Obama has said he’ll create). Doerr also says “the most important thing [Obama]’s got to do is kick-start a huge amount of research and innovation in energy.” Here’s Bill Joy […]
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We already have 750,000 green jobs and the potential for ample green investments
This post was originally published at the NRDC blog, Switchboard, before the presidential election. —– You can’t miss the fact that both Time and Newsweek chose the week of the presidential election to run pieces on how the economic downturn will affect efforts to solve global warming. Yes, most eyes are on the election through […]
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Me and the President-elect
The funny thing about this picture is that it looks completely fake, like I’m posing next to a cardboard cutout. The light bouncing off the mirror does funky things. (PS, when posing for a picture with future presidents, always place yourself in front of a gigantic mirror.) The photo was taken after this interview from […]
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We’ll still have Bachmann to kick around
Ugh: Rep. Michele Bachmann won reelection early Wednesday, fending off a challenge from Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg in a Sixth Congressional District race that came to symbolize the perilous position of Republican incumbents across the nation. … Bachmann credited her victory to her vote against the $700 billion financial rescue package and her campaign to open […]
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Merkley triumphs in Oregon; three other races still undecided
The Oregon Senate race has been called for enviro-backed candidate Jeff Merkley, who finished with a 48.4 to 46 percent lead over Republican incumbent Gordon Smith. In Minnesota, the latest tally puts Republican incumbent Norm Coleman just 439 votes ahead of Democrat Al Franken, a margin that falls within the state’s mandatory recount law. That […]
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Barbara Boxer wants Mary Nichols at the EPA
Bloomberg has a piece up about possible Obama EPA picks. The reporter seems to think that Kathleen McGinty is the front-runner. But Barbara Boxer is thinking what I’m thinking: “Mary Nichols would be a great choice,” Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, said in an interview today. “If I was asked by the Obama administration, […]
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Pelosi wants a stimulus package that includes green measures
In her post-election press conference yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) affirmed her desire that a new economic stimulus plan — which could be taken up in a lame-duck session of Congress later this month — include green measures: The economy, of course, is the top item on the agenda as we go forward, and […]
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What can greens expect from Obama?
In March 2007, Democratic primary contender John Edwards released an ambitious climate and energy plan, calling for greenhouse gas reductions of 80 percent by 2050, a cap-and-trade program with auctioned permits, and a ban on conventional dirty coal plants. Barack Obama. At that point in the race, conventional wisdom was that Edwards was trying to […]
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Three key energy and climate questions and why conservatives just don’t get why they lost, part 1
Obama ran on clear and detailed energy and climate plans. The election poses three over-arching questions: On solutions: Does Obama have a clear mandate to enact his plans to transform our energy and climate policy? On science: Will the transformation he is actually able to enact be sufficient to avert the worst climate impacts (and, […]
