Barack Obama
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U.S.-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected challenge
This piece was co-written with colleagues from the Center for American Progress: Julian L. Wong, a Senior Policy Analyst, and Samuel Charap, a Fellow. The summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow on July 6-8 comes in the middle of a packed international schedule of bilateral and multilateral meetings for […]
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47 groups urge Obama to endorse 2-degree C warming threshold
A coalition of 47 environment, science, and faith-based groups have sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to pursue a goal of keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees Celcius in upcoming international meetings. “Failure to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius will have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable nations […]
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Confident Obama: Senate will pass climate bill, “we can do even more” than ACES’s targets
President Obama gave a very lengthy “must-read” interview to the several reporters Sunday in which he spelled out a great deal of his thinking on the climate bill (transcript here). Since Senate passage of a climate bill depends crucially on Obama’s strong messaging and lobbying effort, I will excerpt the interview in two parts. The […]
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Obama announces new efficiency initiatives as part of big clean-energy push
President Barack Obama doesn’t think he can solve global warming by changing his f**king light bulbs, but he’s going to do it anyway. More importantly, he’s going to change the light-bulb industry. Obama unveiled new energy-efficiency standards for lighting and appliances on Monday — the latest in a string of energy-focused announcements and events for […]
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Obama needs to outline his yardstick on global warming
A coalition of major U.S. groups called for the Obama admin to outline its global warming "yardstick." How will the administration measure our efforts?
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Obama strategy on climate bill: get it passed, then let markets make the argument
In a post earlier today I argued that “official” estimates of how much climate/energy legislation will cost are likely systematically overstating costs and understating benefits. It’s worth noting that this is not an idiosyncratic opinion of mine. It is shared by President Obama, his team, and key Democratic leaders, and helps explain some of the […]
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Obama: Let’s “spark a clean energy transformation… Make no mistake: This is a jobs bill.”
… in a decade, the price to the average American will be just about a postage stamp a day…. There is no longer a debate about whether carbon pollution is placing our planet in jeopardy. It’s happening. Memo to Obama speechwriters: The price to the average American household will be about a postage stamp a […]
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Obama on ACES: “I believe that this legislation is extraordinarily important for our country.”
This week, the House of Representatives is moving ahead on historic legislation that will transform the way we produce and use energy in America. This legislation will spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution that threatens our planet. So said President Obama in the […]
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We need more than ACES
Yesterday morning, on the day that the House of Representatives very narrowly passed a very problematic–a bad–climate bill, I finally became clear in my mind what I was hoping for. My first choice was that the House leadership cancel the planned floor vote because they would decide that they didn’t have enough votes to pass […]
