Climate
Will Obama's Climate Regs Spark The Next Wave of Green Jobs?
The centerpiece of President Obama's climate strategy is a planned package of Environmental Protection Agency rules that would cap carbon on all existing and future power plants, the biggest source of our greenhouse gas emissions. Such rules are essential to avert a...
Fact: Obama Will Cap Carbon
Before the end of the Barack Obama presidency, the EPA will place a cap on carbon pollution from all power plants. This is no longer a mystery. This is happening. And there's nothing Republicans in Congress can do about it. Though if you've been paying close...
The 'Party Of No' Acts Out Again, Won't Even Vote on EPA Nominee
Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The spectacle was...
West Blast Obliterates Safety Lie
You are not safe. Not at work. Not at home in your bed. The biggest threat is not terrorism. It’s corporate negligence leading to a blast or collapse or release of toxic chemicals. Terrorism killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11. But in the dozen years since then, terrorists...
On Earth Day, U.S. Is Behind In The Clean Energy Race
The Pew Charitable Trust’s fourth annual report on "Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race?" doesn’t give the United States much to celebrate on this Earth Day. The report, released last week, finds that the United States is no longer the global leader in renewable...
A Middle-Class Anthem: Good-Paying Green Jobs
“Tell me I’m your national anthem.” That was the theme of the hundreds of environmentalists and labor union members gathered today at the BlueGreen Alliance’s annual conference in Washington. They wanted to remind President Obama and Congress that the middle class is...
Labor and Environmentalists Reenergize The Green Jobs Movement
Can something be equally beneficial for both the environment and the economy? Leaders of the nation’s largest environmental organizations and labor unions say yes. This week in Washington, the BlueGreen Alliance will be holding its annual conference, appropriately...
Energy Dept's New Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative which will make American companies more competitive in the world economy.
Conservatives for States Rights ... Until States Go Green
Republicans are always warning us of the scourge of federal power and glorifying the genius of the states – aka the laboratories of democracy. On clean energy standards, conservatives have been getting their way. While Republican obstructionism has prevented the...
Conservatives Manufacture A Fiscal Crisis, Ignore The Real Climate Crisis
The climate in Washington has been heating up as lawmakers brace for the automatic spending cuts come March 1 known as the sequester. However, the only real thing heating up is our climate, and that's where the House GOP prefers to remain silent and cold. In reality,...
