Barack Obama
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Why selling off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a good idea
Here's how releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve can lower gas prices and help get the U.S. off of oil.
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Has Obama lost environmental voters?
Al Gore's critique of Obama's failure to act on the climate crisis is further evidence of environmentalists' frustration with this administration.
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Join us in civil disobedience to stop the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline
We want you to come to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engage in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested.
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Al Gore attacks Obama for not speaking out on climate change
Is there anything more thrilling than two Democratic politicians duking it out? One guy opens with … punishing inaction! The other counters with … an unforgiving steel 7,000 word essay in Rolling Stone! If that’s your idea of fun, you’re in luck, because it’s Gore vs. Obama and you don’t even need Pay-Per-View. Gore’s essay […]
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A few brave conservatives speak up for climate sanity
Conservative D.R. Tucker and David Roberts spoke on Brad Friedman's radio show on how the right and enviros can find common ground on climate change.
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Memo to the White House: Closing coal plants is a good thing
Rather than running away from the closure of a coal plant, the White House should be throwing a big party every time a coal plant closes.
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When will we see solar panels on the White House?
Bill Mckibben reminds President Barack Obama that he promised to put solar panels on the White House by the end of spring. He only has a week left.
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Government spending on cleantech generates three times as many jobs as oil and gas
Cleantech generates 17 jobs for every $1 million spent on it, compared to just 5 for every $1 million we throw at an oil and gas industry that doesn't need it but will fight to its dying breath to preserve the government largesse shoring up its bottom line. Cleantech even generates more jobs than that […]
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Do we have a moral obligation to stop screwing up the planet?
Barack Obama, Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, and Ursula K. Le Guin walk into a bar book … No, it’s not a joke; it’s an ambitious project that aims to make a rock-solid moral case for environmental action. It started with the print book Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril […]
