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As nations were preparing to communicate their emissions reductions strategies to the UNFCCC ahead of the January 31 deadline, President Obama was leading by example with Federal government emissions reductions.Executive Order 13514 on Federal Sustaina…

As stipulated in last December’s Copenhagen Accord, January 31, 2010 was the deadline for wealthier nations to submit their emissions reductions targets. Obama Pledged to reduce US greenhouse gases (GHGs) by approximately 17 percent below 2005 levels o…

In his State of the Union address, President Obama indicated that he will continue to pursue a comprehensive energy and climate bill as well as provide relief for small business.The President showed leadership by not bowing to political expediency and …

“Despite all our disagreements, we chose to move forward as one nation and one people, again we are tested, again we must answer the call….[Americans are] tired of the pettiness and the partisanship”"Our union is strong, we do not give up, we do not …

The Copenhagen Conference (COP 15) is now only a little more than two months away. There is precious little time to broker an international agreement on climate change. Although there were some important promises made at last week’s G20 Summit in Pitts…

White House Green Jobs Czar Van Jones was forced to resign despite his profound knowledge of the green economy and his impressive resume of vision and leadership.Republicans attribute his forced resignation to a petition he signed in 2004 and a dispara…

Nobel prize winning quantum physicist Steven Chu Ph.D is the most qualified Energy Secretary ever to lead the Department of Energy. He is a far cry from the kind of people that some Republican Presidents have appointed to the job. Conservative icon Ron…

Recently, some have questioned the President’s commitment to confronting climate change. People like Greenpeace’s US executive director Phil Radford have gone as far as saying that the President is “missing in action” on global warming. A May 18 Time m…

Having completed his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama is being evaluated as part of a 77 year old tradition in American Politics. Although 100 days is an admittedly arbitrary yardstick, Americans have been using it to evaluate their Pre…