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Why Obama's Environmental Pick Drives Republicans Crazy
April 12, 2013 Thursday's confirmation hearing for President Obama’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency became the latest forum for an ongoing argument over global warming, jobs, the future of the U.S. coal industry, and the role of the federal government. This will continue over the course of Obama’s second term, as ...
EPA Nominee’s Hearing Is Just the Opening Act for GOP
April 11, 2013 The Obama administration and Senate Republicans face off in a high-drama clash over global warming on Thursday, as the president’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency undergoes questioning by the committee considering her nomination. Gina McCarthy, a tough-talking environmental regulator from South Boston who is currently EPA’s top clean-air ...
New Era for Energy Department Expected Under a Secretary Moniz
April 9, 2013 With stimulus funding for clean energy at an end, climate-change policy dead in Congress, and harsh budget cuts looming over all agencies thanks to the sequestration, the days of President Obama’s vision of the Energy Department as a green juggernaut have probably come to an end. But Ernest Moniz, who ...
Republicans Take Aim at Obama’s EPA Nominee
March 5, 2013 President Obama’s nomination Monday of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency sets up the next high-profile clash between the White House and congressional Republicans over the incendiary issue of climate change. Obama has tapped McCarthy, currently the assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at EPA, ...
EPA Funding Reductions Kneecap Environmental Enforcement
March 4, 2013 Republicans have spent the past two years on the warpath against the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. As the EPA rolled out an ambitious slate of rules aimed at stopping climate change and curbing power-plant pollution, Republicans on the campaign trail and Capitol Hill slammed the agency as the embodiment ...
Why John Kerry should treat climate change as a national security issue
February 1, 2013 For centuries, the glaciers of the Western Himalayas have fed the Indus River, which flows down the mountains through India and into Pakistan, where it runs the length of the country to the Arabian Sea. In both countries, the river is a crucial source of water for livestock, irrigation, drinking—essential ...
The education of Energy Secretary Steven Chu
January 18, 2013 The imminent departure of Energy Secretary Steven Chu highlights the political struggle President Obama has faced in trying to enact even a portion of the sweeping clean-energy and climate change agenda he envisioned when he ran for the White House in 2008. Obama tapped the Nobel physicist to lead his ...
Why the former Washington governor is likely to join Obama's Cabinet
January 17, 2013 President Obama hinted at his news conference this week that he would soon name some high-profile women to top jobs in his administration. Christine Gregoire, the former governor of Washington state, will almost certainly be one of them. Gregoire, who has made energy issues a cornerstone of her gubernatorial tenure, ...
Obama could look west to fill Interior job
January 16, 2013 President Obama could look west to fill the job of Interior secretary that will become vacant by the end of March with the departure of Ken Salazar. Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, who supports the president’s progressive clean-energy and climate-change agenda, is one possible candidate. Gregoire, who has also been mentioned ...
A Secretary John Kerry would elevate climate issues
December 11, 2012 If Sen. John Kerry becomes the next secretary of State or Defense, he will likely raise climate change to a top-tier priority in either agency. Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has long been viewed as a likely candidate to replace Secretary of State Hillary ...
