U.S. Chamber's Tom Donohue wants revenge...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking the Obama administration to court to block the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act.
The Chamber, which has established itself as a foe of the White House’s attempts to curb emissions, wants bipartisan legislation to address climate change and will challenge the administration in federal court. Read More »
Lindsey Graham: Greener than Obama?
“Obama now not as green as Lindsey Graham.”
That little gem from Talking Points Memo’s Brian Beutler summed up our topsy-turvy world today. He was responding to a speech in which the South Carolina Republican senator said President Obama was unwise to propose an energy bill without putting a price on carbon.
Graham accomplished a seemingly impossible feat (for a Republican) in his speech at the “Business Advocacy Day for Jobs, Climate & New Energy Leadership” in Washington D.C.: he outflanked Obama from the LEFT. Read More »
Obama: Cuts cap and trade revenue from budget
Follow the money, goes the old journalistic saw. And behold, Obama’s budget has shown us that there is no projected revenue from a cap and trade program in his latest budget proposal.
This is a departure from last year’s revenue forecast for 2012-2019, which showed revenues of $646 billion from cap and trade, according to Reuters. Read More »
Right-wing firebrand Rush Limbaugh thinks the planet would be better with former New York Times climate reporter Andrew Revkin dead and Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm wants him to get something (anything) right. Being the target of these two flamethrowers, in addition to writing Page One stories for The Times from the Copenhagen climate summit, running the Dot Earth blog and writing books would wear anyone down. On Dec. 21, Revkin packed it in and left The Times, where he had been a staff writer since 1995. Not, mind you, to run and hide, but to begin the next phase of his career as a senior fellow at Pace University’s new interdiscplinary program for applied environmental studies. We caught up with Revkin to talk about Copenhagen and the future of the climate for our Cornerstone Conservations series with leading executives and thinkers in clean tech and green energy.
GER: What was the Copenhagen climate summit like to cover?
Andrew Revkin: I’m sure everyone over there had a different perspective based on their experience. I was seeing some really bad signs early on; it was kind of like watching a truck you know is going too fast miss the intersection. There was just no way you were going to get any substantive breakthroughs coming out of something like that. Read More »
