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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 ...
'We're not fishing,' Issa says of leak investigation
June 25, 2012 Just days before the House is slated to vote on whether to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, the Republican congressman leading the investigation against Holder defended his pursuit of further information and slammed President Obama for invoking executive privilege to withhold documents. Last week, the House ...
How the Pentagon plans to wean itself off fossil fuels
April 11, 2012 The Pentagon plans to roll out a new slate of clean- and renewable-energy initiatives on Wednesday as part of its long-term “Operational Energy Strategy” aimed at reducing the military’s dependence on fossil fuels while increasing its front-line fighting power. The moves are in keeping with a sustained push by the ...
First major climate regs from Obama EPA sure to stir political debate
March 27, 2012 The Obama administration is expected to unveil long-awaited global-warming regulations as soon as Tuesday in a move that will make a big splash politically but won’t have real environmental or economic impact until long after the 2012 elections. The controversial rules -- initially setting limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from new ...
Budget reflects scaled-back vision for clean energy
February 13, 2012 President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal asks Congress to increase spending on renewable-energy projects by about $500 million – almost the same amount the Energy Department lost on its loan guarantee for the bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra. The proposed spending increase, which would take the Energy Department’s renewables spending up ...
White House budget to expand clean energy programs through Pentagon
February 10, 2012 The White House believes it’s figured out how to get more money for clean energy programs touted by President Obama without having it become political road kill in the wake of the Solyndra controversy: Put it in the Pentagon. While details are thin on the ground, lawmakers who work on ...
Will Energy Secretary Steven Chu stay or go?
November 15, 2011 When Steven Chu, a Nobel physicist who had lately devoted his career to climate change and clean-energy research, was nominated by President Obama for Energy secretary in December 2008, it seemed like a perfect match. Until then, the Energy Department had actually played very little role in energy policy. Despite ...
Interior Department plan will include more Gulf, Alaska leases
November 8, 2011 The Obama administration on Tuesday is set to release its first five-year offshore drilling plan, opening up the Beaufort, Chukchi seas, the Cook Inlet off the coast of Alaska as well as more areas in the Gulf of Mexico, sources familiar with the announcement told National Journal. By expanding drilling ...
White House orders independent review of Energy-loan program
October 28, 2011 White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said on Friday that the administration is ordering an independent analysis of the Energy Department program that gave a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, the bankrupt solar-energy company that is already facing an FBI probe. The move is one of the most ...
