54 organizations, with sometimes competing interests, write a letter to President Obama urging him to push for a bipartisan climate and energy bill. Read it.
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Confronting tough choices to stem the tide of toxic pollution. The idea that America’s clean-energy push has become, first and foremost, a jobs push is now indisputable. President Barack Obama put in 13-hours of negotiations and appears to have saved the Copenhagen climate talks from utter collapse with his last-minute push. But is George W. For all the expectations that President Barack Obama’s appearance at the Copenhagen climate conference could part the waters and break the deadlock, his 8-minute speech thrilled nobody. Granted, he met beforehand with a score of world leaders, and a dozen more at lunch—not to mention an hour-long one-on-one with the Chinese premier in between—but his speech left plenty of frustration inside Copenhagen’s Bella Center and without. Crude oil futures rose above $74 a barrel due to encouraging economic news and signs of a potential rebound in demand, Bloomberg reports . Even natural gas rebounded strongly yesterday after a big inventory drawdown, the WSJ reports. What about gas prices—at the pump? Will President Obama’s offer of a 17% reduction in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 be enough to break the impasse at the Copenhagen climate summit Green jobs are still a big part of the Obama administration’s plan to jumpstart job creation. In this morning’s big jobs speech, President Obama outlined three main ways Washington can get people back to work: helping small business get more credit so as to hire more people; beefing up investment in infrastructure such as rail, roads, and bridges, and ramping up government support for energy efficiency and clean energy. Specifically, the President asked Congress to “provide rebates for consumers who make energy efficiency retrofits,” which in theory would provide a double-whammy of providing jobs and saving consumers money by sealing up leaky houses. Now that the big Copenhagen climate change confab is underway, is the glass half-full or half-empty? Put another way, whose voice carries more weight—Lord Stern’s or the top Chinese climate negotiator |
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