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  Republicans Wield the Knife

  Andy Rowell

  Feb14

  The knives are out. Well its more more like they are wielding axes or even chainsaws, as they pick up the pace in their attack on Obama’s budget proposals. Late last week, the House Appropriations Committee released a partial list of where it’s wants to find nearly $75 billion in cuts in federal spending cuts….
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  Facing ten years in jail for disrupting Bush’s “crime”

  Andy Rowell

  Feb07

  There are many legacies of the Bush Administration that still blight the American landscape, but one of them could see a young environmental activist be sent to jail for ten years. Back in December 2008, Tim DeChristopher grabbed national attention when he disrupted the last oil and gas auction of the Bush Administration. Bush had…
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  Push Back Against the Climate Deniers and End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

  Traci Romine

  Feb03

  At the same time it appears that big oil and coal climate denial campaigns are successfully stifling climate action in Congress and the Obama Administration, a group of America’s top scientists stepped up to the plate on Tuesday and called on House and Senate leaders to “take a fresh look at climate change.” And none…
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  “Clean” Obama Versus Newt King Coal?

  Andy Rowell

  Jan26

  So we have been here before. A year ago Obama called for the ending of fossil fuel subsidies in his state of the Union address. Since then we have had two significant events: the Gulf oil spill, that you would have thought would have made it easier for politicians to stop subsidising oil companies. Then…
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  The Game Remains the Same

  Andy Rowell

  Nov08

  In the days after the BP oil spill, many environmentalists argued that the spill would be a “game-changer”, that it would facilitate the transition to a clean energy future. But any new legislation that might have been introduced after the spill that placed stricter regulations on offshore drilling is not likely to come into force,…
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  Now Obama Turns the White House Green

  Andy Rowell

  Oct06

  So its not only Obama’s war machine that is going green. So is the White House. In recent days some in the press have compared Obama to Jimmy Carter, saying their presidencies are similar in the way they failed to live up to expectations. But there is another way that Obama is replicating Carter –…
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• API Scaremongers Over Jobs

  Andy Rowell

  Oct01

  The good old American Petroleum Institute is up to its old tricks again, scaremongering over jobs. The API held “citizen” rallies in seven cities in early September to discuss the effect of energy legislation on jobs, arguing that many jobs were under threat. To coincide with the lobbying effort, two weeks ago, the API put…
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• “Deep-water drilling will continue because that’s where the oil is..”

  Andy Rowell

  Sep30

  The Washington Post this morning asks a fundamental question that has been played out in countless meetings of oil companies, government officials and environmental NGOs: “Will the oil spill make a drop of difference regarding our attitudes?” Some five months later, was the spill a game changer like many predicted? And the results seem to…
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• Universal energy access stressed at UN

  Elizabeth Bast

  Sep22

  Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the importance of making energy available to the poor as a foundation for combating poverty as world leaders gathered in New York this week at the Millennium Development Goal Summit. At a high-level event yesterday, the Secretary General said that it is lack of political will that is keeping…
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• The Gulf of Oil

  Mark Floegel

  May06

  Venice, LA – I’m down at the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico or what for now is the Gulf of Mexico.  Rick Steiner, a marine conservationist and oil spill expert flew over the gulf Wednesday morning and said, “It’s not the Gulf of Mexico any more. It’s the gulf of oil.” Rick’s been…
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