The descent of Van Jones from a powerful job in Barack Obama’s administration to career-sinking political controversy happened at a stunning pace. On Aug. 10, the White House’s ousted special adviser for green jobs appeared at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 in Las Vegas, More…
I reported on Friday that the earliest attacks on Van Jones came from WorldNetDaily. Today, the Website is taking full credit for Jones’ resignation.
President Barack Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones quit late last night after pressure mounted over his extremist history first exposed in WND
Van Jones, President Obama’s green jobs “czar” and best-selling author of “The Green Collar Economy,” announced his resignation late Saturday.
“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” Jones, special adviser for
On April 12, the conservative Website WorldNetDaily published an expose on newly appointed White House “green czar” Van Jones that labeled the environmental activists a “an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader.”
Based on readily available online sources, including an More…
A mysterious YouTube member named, conveniently, “megwhitmanonvanjones,” has uploaded a May 2009 San Francisco Chronicle video of 2010 GOP California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, in which the former CEO of eBay and former adviser to Mitt Romney and John McCain gushes about suddenly controversial green jobs czar Van Jones.
The Senate’s first hearing on climate legislation since the House passed the landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act is underway. And unlike in much of the House debate, there’s little pretense of bipartisanship thus far in the Senate discussion.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) More…
The push to retool Detroit as a center of green manufacturing got a small but significant boost today with the announcement of a new wind turbine plant that will initially create 250 jobs.
The Detroit News reports that Global Wind Systems will open the facility in Novi, Mich., about More…
As a member of the two Senate committees on energy and the environment issues, and the chairman of the new Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is in a strong position to weigh in on the country’s green future. At a breakfast this morning with More…
This morning, the conservative Heritage Foundation rolled out an energy proposal to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, arguing that “the jobs created by a reinvigorated domestic energy industry would be well-paying and long-term and funded … by the private sector.”
Sound like President Obama’s green jobs plan? Try More…
Before signing new executive orders on his green agenda this morning, President Obama laid out three priorities in the areas of energy independence, fuel efficiency and emissions.
“This moment of peril must be turned into one of progress,” he pledged. Noting today’s announcements of huge job cuts at Caterpillar, More…
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