Category Archives: Obama

Part 2: Three Reasons Donald Trump Could Be Good News for the Climate

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In my last post, I asserted that despite Donald Trump’s already atrocious environmental and climate policy, his election could ultimately turn out to bring good news for the climate. That post looked at the first of three reasons for hope: that Trump’s win forces progressives to rethink climate policy. With Trump now apparently on the verge of pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement, let’s look at two additional reasons for hope during this trying time.

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The Climate Debate Today: Nothing Has Changed; Everything Has Changed

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Over the past year, the momentum has shifted in the climate debate. Everything has changed. Instead of debating whether we need to take climate change seriously, it is time for policymakers and citizens alike to ask what we need to do to put the full strength of the American economy to work solving the climate crisis.

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Deadline Today for Keystone XL Comments

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Today is your last chance to provide an official comment to the State Department regarding whether the Keystone pipeline expansion should be approved.  Most environmental organizations are urging the president to block the pipeline – 350.org suggests that if he approves Keystone XL, Obama will become the “pipeline president” – but is stopping Keystone XL […]

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10th Anniversary of Whitman’s Departure from EPA, Anti-Environmentalist Takeover of GOP

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Today marks the tenth anniversary of Christine Todd Whitman’s last day as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.  The anniversary is especially poignant coming just two days after President Obama announced aggressive executive branch action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.  After all, President Obama is fulfilling a campaign pledge – a campaign […]

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Keystone, Activism, and Pure Cap-and-Dividend

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Environmental activists have made stopping the expansion of TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline a top priority.  Keystone XL, the expansion project, would transport Canadian tar sands oil to markets in the United States and beyond.  (A proposed southern addition to the pipeline would carry oil to the Gulf of Mexico, facilitating further transport by oil tanker.)  The […]

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Environmental Faceoff: The Obama Campaign v. Obama?

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With no candidate to reelect, Obama for America has morphed into Organizing for Action, an issues advocacy group.  OFA will, to quote its website, “support President Obama in achieving enactment of the national agenda Americans voted for on Election Day 2012.” There’s just one problem: What if President Obama backs away from the very agenda […]

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The State of the Union and Pure Cap-and-Dividend

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President Obama surprised many with the attention (158 words!) that he gave to climate change in his inaugural address.  “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” he promised.  Encouraging, yes.  But how we respond matters as much as if […]

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