Obama's First 100 Days

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Cash for Caulkers: The Next $23 Billion Stimulus Program?

Nov 18, 2009 3:35 PM

Photo via Britannica It's pretty safe to say that there's been only one stimulus bill story that truly resounded with the public: Cash for Clunkers. Whether or not that program truly achieved it...

Massive New US-China Clean Energy Plans Announced

Nov 17, 2009 3:24 PM

Photo via Wind Power Ninja Obama's in China this week, and green issues are high on the agenda. As Daniel noted earlier, US and China struck a deal on renewable energy information sharing--some p...

The Senate is 'Hobbling' Obama in His Climate Fight

Nov 16, 2009 4:15 PM

Kathy Bates doing some hobbling. Image via AMC Obama's sweeping ambitions for quelling climate change and creating a clean energy economy have so far remained largely unfulfilled. The New York Ti...

Now It's Super-Official: No Climate Treaty at Copenhagen

Nov 16, 2009 12:45 PM

Waving the climate treaty prospects goodbye . . . for now. Photo via BBC It's official--and I mean really official--there will be no finalized global climate agreement by December. The last few m...

Obama's Trip to China: What's on the Green Agenda?

Nov 12, 2009 5:38 PM

Photo via China Dialogue Next week, Obama is taking off on his high-profile first trip to China. The meeting of the two biggest economies in the world on Chinese soil is fraught with symbolism a...

Cash for Clunkers is Ruining the Demolition Derby Industry (VIDEO)

Nov 12, 2009 3:35 PM

Photo via Ontario County Fair It's sad but true--the enormously popular Cash for Clunkers program that took 690,000 polluting cars off the road and replaced them with brand new, slightly less pol...

7 Highlights (and a Few Lowlights) in Food Since President Obama Was Elected

Nov 11, 2009 1:06 PM

Photo credit: foxypar4 via Flickr Just about one year ago, Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States. Proclaiming change across the board, Obama swept in to office on...

Will the Climate Bill Grant Obama the Powers of a Dictator?

Nov 10, 2009 4:50 PM

Photo via CDN No, no, it won't. I wish this could be a one-word post, but unfortunately, I think I'll have to do some explaining. You see, in one of the odder charges against the now-bipartisan c...

White House Debunks 7 Green Stimulus Bill Myths

Nov 4, 2009 4:59 PM

Photo via Washington Post Ever since Obama's stimulus bill was first announced, false rumors an melodramatic criticism (Bobby Jindal and his made-up train to Disneyland, anyone?) have spread like...

The White House (Finally) Begins Major Push for Clean Energy Reform

Oct 28, 2009 2:41 PM

Photo via Stand Up for America With climate bill hearings in full swing over in the Senate, the White House has finally begun a push for clean energy reform. Yesterday, key White House officials ...

Obama Plans Climate Bill Push, Supports Nuclear and Drilling Compromises

Oct 16, 2009 4:00 PM

Photo via the Washington Post In New Orleans yesterday, Obama said that after health care reform debate wraps up, his administration is getting ready to give climate legislation a major push. Sen...

EPA to Clamp Down on Water Polluters

Oct 15, 2009 4:25 PM

Perhaps in response to recent revelations that hundreds of coal plants across the country are dumping waste into lakes and rivers where Americans get their drinking water, the EPA has announced i...

Green Jobs: Now Better Paying than Non-Green Jobs

Oct 15, 2009 3:38 PM

Photo via Stachowski Green jobs now pay as well as, or better, than other jobs in similar sectors, a new report from PayScale and CleanEdge has found. This of course is good news--lawmakers, cle...

The Best of Fast Company: Farm-Fresh Vending Machines, Obama's Agri-Biz Ties, and the Carbon War Room

Oct 13, 2009 7:32 AM

German vending machines offer farm-fresh produce and dairy products, Obama nominates bigtime agri-biz execs to key agriculture posts, Richard Branson's Carbon War Room tries to slow down climate ...

Obama Spares 100,000 Acres from Bush-Approved Oil Drilling

Oct 9, 2009 3:08 PM

Photo via CW56 In the last few weeks of his term, the Bush administration controversially approved 77 sites for oil drilling in Utah. The move was immediately challenged by environmental groups, ...

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