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Sources say Obama will drop EPA head and ‘energy czar’ as early as today
A source close to the transition tells me that Obama will drop the names of his energy czar and EPA head today. The decision may be coming out earlier than expected to try to help take the edge off the endless Blagojevich coverage. Al Kamen says his sources tell him the energy czar is going […]
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Hill briefing tries to stir support for a carbon tax
With more than a month yet to go before the new Congress is officially sworn in (and the old Congress still kicking around in lame duck session), some wonk-types were on the Hill today trying to stir up support for a carbon tax. Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), who last year introduced a carbon tax bill […]
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Greens, labor leaders, and economists call for $900 billion recovery plan
Campaign for America’s Future today released a “Main Street Recovery Plan” [PDF], laying out wha the group hopes to see from the Obama team. The plan calls for investments of at least $900 billion over the next two years, including $100 billion in green investments. “Central to the plan should be investment in green technology, […]
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Cap-and-trade bill will return GOP to power ‘in 2010’
The conservative movement stagnation has few leaders more frozen in the cement of denial than Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.). Greenwire ($ub. req’d) reports that he flew all the way to Poland just to warn “Democrats today that they will lose their congressional majorities in 2010 if they try to pass a significant global warming bill […]
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A remarkably uninformative statement from Obama about his meeting with Gore
The press pool was allowed in for a photo-op following the hour-long meeting between Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Al Gore earlier today. Here’s the official, remarkably uninformative statement they got from Obama: The purpose of this meeting today was to listen and learn from Vice President Al Gore on the extraordinary work that he […]
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Obama folks trumpet meeting with enviros in new video
The Obama transition team just released a video of their energy and environment working group meeting with leaders of several major environmental groups to discuss the transition plan the groups have put forward. In the video, you’ll see Mark Tercek, president of The Nature Conservancy; World Wildlife Fund president Carter Roberts; Kevin Curtis, deputy director […]
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BREAKING!
Al Gore still not running for president ready to accept a job in a presidential administration. We’ll keep you updated on new developments in Gore’s unwavering, years-long refusal to get back in government as they unfold!
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NYT columnist makes a late bid for dumbest paragraph of the year
It’s widely agreed that Bill Kristol’s tenure as a New York Times op-ed columnist has been a fiasco — not for Kristol, whose flat-footed, me-too hackery is old news, but for the Gray Lady, who showed the extraordinary bad judgment to pick him. Most of Kristol’s stuff is instantly forgettable, but yesterday brought what I […]
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Christie Todd Whitman
I got a bit lost in the rush, but I hope everyone got a chance to read Jonathan Hiskes’ interview with Christie Todd Whitman on Friday.
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Scientists call for cleanup of Chesapeake Bay
Marking the 25th anniversary of a pact between local, state, and federal agencies to clean up Chesapeake Bay near Washington, D.C., a group of scientists on Monday called for a brand new plan to save the fragile area, arguing that the largely voluntary $6 billion plan now in place has done little to solve the […]
