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President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs
With Obama promising a plan to move America toward a non-petroleum based future, Jon Stewart took the time to give a little history lesson on the show last night.
As he pointed out, Obama is certainly not the first President to come on TV and talk about a plan for energy-independence. No, no. It seems that going as far back as Nixon, every President has broadcast the same, if not similar, pledge.
UK industry expressed alarm on Wednesday at the “inappropriate” and increasingly aggressive rhetoric being deployed against BP by Barack Obama, US president, and warned that the attacks on the oil company could damage transatlantic relations.
The potential cost of the crisis and fresh fears over whether BP will pay its dividend has continued to hit its shares, with the company’s American Depositary Receipts falling nearly 16 per cent on Wednesday. Since the accident in late April, the value of BP’s ADRs has halved
The Obama Administration has succeeded in rewriting the United States Constitution by winning the right to indefinitely imprison people without charges.
Bill McKibben's essay - The gulf oil spill is Obama's chance to take bold steps on climate change.
James Cameron, best known as one of the world’s most successful filmmakers, this week found himself slammed in some circles for pulling together a brain trust of underwater technology experts to provide advice to the Obama administration for next steps in the unfolding Gulf of Mexico petro-calamity.
Has Israel lost it? Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead) and the Lebanon War of 2006 (1,006 dead) and all the other wars and now yesterday's killings mean that the world will no longer accept Israel's rule?
Don't hold your breath.
You only have to read the gutless White House statement – that the Obama administration was "working to understand the circumstances surrounding the tragedy". Not a single word of condemnation. And that's it. Nine dead. Just another statistic to add to the Middle East's toll.
The Gaza relief flotilla embarked from Turkey, where leaders were angered by the American diplomacy. Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davotoglu, in the U.S. on an official visit, compared the Israeli raid to the Sept. 11 attacks. "We expect the United States to show solidarity with us," he said at a breakfast in Washington.
Turkey is a NATO ally of the United States and has been important to U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Before an audience at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama today (2 June 2010) strongly and persuasively spoke about our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels, the benefits of shifting to clean energy, and his commitment to finding the votes necessary to pass a comprehensive energy and climate bill that lays "the foundation for a better future."
The Obama administration is suspending proposed exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
Interior secretary Ken Salazar says in a report to be delivered to the White House today that he will not consider applications for permits to drill in the Arctic until 2011. Shell Oil was poised to begin exploratory drilling this summer on leases as far as 225km (140 miles) offshore
A huge oil slick caused by an underwater leak continued to creep toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday as the Obama administration pressed energy giant BP Plc to stem the oil gushing from its ruptured offshore well.
President Barack Obama so far has said nothing about the screamingly obvious connection between the spoils of fossil-fuel dependency and the vision of a clean-energy economy that he's been sporadically promoting. Instead he had this tepid statement on the Gulf oil spill Friday morning: "I continue to believe that domestic oil production is an important part of our overall strategy for energy security."
What happened to never letting a crisis go to waste? This mother of a crisis runs straight into our fossil-fuel addiction. It's a prime opportunity for progressives and clean-energy advocates to demonstrate the desperate need for new forms of energy. It's a prime opportunity to pressure the Senate to put a price on carbon pollution and invest in the R&D necessary to jump-start a clean energy economy. It's a prime opportunity to do all this without the corrupting influence of Big Oil, which had a hand in writing the elusive Kerry-Graham-Lieberman energy bill. Executives from BP--the company responsible for this mess--and Chevron and ConocoPhillips were planning to stand in support at the rollout of the KGL bill this week. Now's the chance to move a bill that isn't contorted by concessions to the dirty energy industries.
As military officials consider joining the battle against the massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration said Thursday that the cost of the cleanup will fall on BP, the company in charge of the rig that exploded.
Barack Obama's new dream of a nuclear renaissance faces a major reality check tomorrow when the state of Vermont is expected to shut down an ageing nuclear reactor with a history of leaks.
It would be the first time a state has moved to shut down such a reactor, and follows Obama's announcement last week of $8.3bn (£5.4bn) in loan guarantees for the construction of two new reactors in Georgia. White House officials said the money would help spur a burst of new construction – the first since the Three Mile Island meltdown.
"We've heard this one before; Obama threatening to sever subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. He called for ending the subsidies during his SOTU, and was doing so even before that. Now, he's proposing that $36 billion worth of those subsidies for oil and $2.3 billion for coal (both get $70 billion a year in total) get stripped from the budget--which would be great. Too bad special interests will almost certainly keep this from happening.
"Obama’s achievements in climate and clean energy have been unprecedented, as I’ve discussed. And while he still needs a domestic climate bill and an international deal to be a true success, his accomplishments after one year in office deserve enumerating, if only because the status quo media won’t. "
Over 80 U.S. Companies Call on President Obama & Congress To Enact Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation
President Obama announced the award of $2.3 billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. One hundred eighty three projects in 43 states will create tens of thousands of high quality clean energy jobs and the domestic manufacturing of advanced clean energy technologies including solar, wind and efficiency and energy management technologies.
Superb advertising campaign in Copenhagen Airport where today's world leaders are writing apologetic notes from a possible future where they didn't act to prevent climate change
"Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. The end result will promote energy-saving choices for consumers, increase efficiency, and foster the growth of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. "
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