Dan Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, says Ryan Lizza’s much-talked-about New Yorker story on why the climate bill did not pass the Senate leaves out a few key details.
Lizza’s story shows that, in many cases, the White House and More…
Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker story on the demise of the Senate climate bill makes clear that the Obama administration did not take seriously the oil spill risk associated with expanded offshore drilling.
The administration announced in March that it would expand offshore drilling — an effort to win support More…
The New Yorker published a blockbuster story this weekend detailing the many failures of the White House and the Senate to pass climate change legislation.
The story, by Ryan Lizza, is nearly 10,000 words, but it’s definitely worth a read. It documents, in extensive detail, how the White House More…
The Washington Post ran a thought-provoking op-ed Sunday that posed a simple question: “What will future generations condemn us for?”
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a philosophy professor at Princeton University, offered four possibilities, including the world’s treatment and disregard for the environment.
Politico this morning published a lengthy profile on Carol Browner, the White House’s climate and energy adviser or “climate czar.” The story focuses on rumors that Browner will abandon her post now that climate change legislation has a near-zero chance of passing Congress. The story cites little evidence that More…
In Wisconsin today, President Obama delivered a rebuke of those who oppose efforts to boost the energy manufacturing sector and create “clean energy jobs.” But Obama steered clear of specifics and did not call for passage of a stripped-down energy and oil spill response bill in the Senate, let alone More…
A coalition of environmentalists and labor unions is launching today a cross-country bus tour to pressure lawmakers to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation next year.
On a conference call with reporters today, members of the BlueGreen Alliance criticized the Senate for not acting on climate and energy legislation, blaming More…
Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy — whose Upper Big Branch coal mine exploded in April, killing 29 miners — spoke at the National Press Club yesterday, bragging that his company has a superlative safety record and a higher level of expertise than the government regulators tasked with enforcing More…
To no one’s surprise, today’s energy and climate meeting between key senators and President Obama appears to have been inconclusive, with Democrats opening up to further concessions and Republicans remaining reluctant to sign on. Darren Samuelsohn reports:
Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman told reporters after the 90-minute
When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) asked major committee chairmen yesterday to offer “recommendations or report legislation” on clean energy before July 4, with an eye to considering a post-oil spill bill later that month, several news outlets interpreted the letter as boosting momentum for a climate change More…
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