DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Business executives and policy officials said a U.S. cap and trade scheme must give way to a clean energy law, after U.S. President Barack Obama favored “green jobs” in his State of the Union Address.
In his state of the union address, Obama seemed willing to trade nuclear power and offshore drilling for climate bill votesA guest blog by Suzanne Goldenberg, the Guardian’s US environment correspondentGreens probably didn’t reckon the “change you can believe in” would mean building more nuclear power plants when Barack Obama was first elected. But that [...]
President Obama pledges to help pass ‘comprehensive’ climate change law, but also backed nuclear power and drillingBarack Obama put himself firmly behind the effort to get a climate change bill through Congress last night – but said it must include a new generation of nuclear power.The brief passage on energy and climate in Obama’s state [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — After President Obama’s State of the Union Address tonight, Raymond C. Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America, made the following statement:
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Failure to Extend the Biodiesel Tax Incentive has put 23,000 Green Jobs in Immediate Jeopardy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Tonight, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver his first State of the Union Address. Though the …
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Alliance to Save Energy today urged President Obama to use his State of the Union address to make a strong case for energy efficiency as an engine of job creation.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ahead of the State of the Union address and in the wake of recent and ongoing climate science scandals, President Obama should appoint an independent panel of experts to evaluate the purported climate chan…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Wednesday, he is expected to promote alternative energy as a way of tackling global warming problems and creating more domestic jobs.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The four-letter word that will dominate President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Wednesday — jobs — could be the savior for faltering climate control legislation, or at least that’s environmentalists’ latest hope….
Environmental organisations believe Obama is being urged to downplay climate change during this year’s speechGlobal warming – a signature issue for Barack Obama – is at risk of getting the short shrift in this year’s State of the Union speech on Wednesday, further shrinking the already slim prospects of getting a climate change law through [...]