Tagged with Center For American Progress 
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Climate Change Schizophrenia
Cash for coal clunkers and anthems for natural gas won’t win this epic battle 12
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks agoThose of us worried sick over climate change confronted a depressing piece of excellent reporting in Monday's Washington Post.
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Green growth
Tony Blair, Climate Group, and CAP call for strong technology deployment policy 2
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
While Tony Blair and the Climate Group endorse strong investment in technology development, it is squarely focused on the crucial role that strong government regulations and standards play in achieving the rapid technology deployment needed to meet key 2020 greenhouse gas targets.
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Waxman-Markey: We’d better try to get what we need 3
Posted 5 months ago
Once again Mick Jagger is right: “You can't always get what you want/But if you try sometimes you just might find/You get what you need.”
The House of Representatives is poised for its first-ever floor debate and series of votes on a landmark measure to reduce global warming pollution. This bill is revolutionary in its intent and, while imperfect in its means, it deserves the support of progressives.
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Putting the economy in the green
New studies tout the economic benefits of green jobs 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Investments in clean energy -- such as those encouraged by the American Clean Energy and Security Act -- would produce several times as many jobs as the same amount of money spent on traditional fossil fuels, according to new studies released Thursday by a coalition of environmental groups and research institutes.
Lower-income Americans in particular would benefit, according to a report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Green for All.
Upgrading the U.S. economy to rely less on fossil fuels would create a surge of manufacturing and construction jobs that would include renovating homes and buildings to be more energy efficient, tapping clean energy sources such as wind and solar to produce more electricity, and building better transit systems and other infrastructure improvements.
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American Clean Energy and Security Act will drive clean energy investments
News flash: More jobs and lower energy costs good for low-income Americans 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
TO: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, Heritage Foundation and other industry groups predicting the end of life as we know if America takes action on climate change
FROM: Natural Resources Defense Council, Political Economic Research Institute/University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Green for All and the Center For American Progress
Subject: Inconvenient New Study Debunks Your Scare Tactics about the American Clean Energy and Security Act
It's time to face facts. You are just wrong when you forecast massive job losses, economic dislocation and harm to low-income Americans if the U.S. takes action on energy/green jobs issues. Contrary to what you've been suggesting, it turns out that "down is not up" and "night is not day": More green jobs resulting from tackling climate change is a good thing for America - including lower-income households.
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“Let’s get this damn thing started!”
Climate envoy Todd Stern on U.S. climate action and the possibility of deal with China 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern gives a glimpse into where U.S.-China negotiations are headed on climate.
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