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Baracking in the free world

Obama’s green achievements at 100 days 8
Posted 7 months ago
What have Barack Obama and his administration done to meet green expectations in their first 100 days?
The Green FDR

Obama’s first 100 days make—and may remake—history 2
Posted 7 months ago
The media just keeps missing -- or messing up -- the story of the century.

Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition. If the world doesn’t stop catastrophic climate change, then all presidents, indeed, all of us, will be seen as failures, and rightfully so.
Joe Blow

Joe Barton tries to stump Steven Chu with question about where oil comes from 3
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), a climate skeptic with some wacky theories of his own, tried to stump Energy Secretary Steven Chu at Wednesday's climate-bill hearing by asking, "How did all the oil and gas get to Alaska and under the Arctic Ocean?"
Unchain Chu

Energy boss Steven Chu misses his bike 12
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, an avid bicyclist, is now being driven to work by a security detail -- and it doesn't make him happy.
MSM Follies

Steven Chu doesn’t talk in sound bites 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Why did The Washington Post, which has on staff two serious experts on energy and environmental policy (Juliet Eilperin and Steve Mufson), send their expert for what passes as celebrity in Washington to interview a Nobel Prize winner who's trying to save the human race!?!?
Notable quotable

Energy politics shouldn’t depend on whether you’re Republican or Democrat, says Chu 4
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
"We have a problem and we've got to get it solved. The politics of energy are such that it actually shouldn't be a political question. Let's get to a different point in the discussion about what American needs, and what this country really needs is something where it doesn't really matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. ... California went through that transition in the 1970s. That's why their per capita energy use has remained flat over the years, because both parties became convinced that this was something that was very important. I think a similar feeling has to emerge in the general population of the United States, that this is a problem. Our national security, our economic prosperity, our climate issues are really not ultimately political questions."
A Sandalow victory

Obama picks climate, oil expert David Sandalow to oversee U.S. energy policy 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
President Obama has picked David Sandalow to be assistant secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the Energy Department. He also plans to nominate BP chief scientist Steven Koonin to be undersecretary for Science.
Steven Chu chats with Charlie Rose 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Feed-in tariffs, Chu off-message, MPG v. GPM, and the prospects for solar PV 0
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Biden’s Middle Class Task Forces asks some tough questions about green jobs 2
Posted 9 months ago
Politicos, Pickens hype summit in D.C. next week 6
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Money for fossil fuel research in the stimulus could still go to coal 0
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Steven Chu’s full global warming interview 2
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The players: Obama’s people 5
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sue Tierney for deputy, names for under sec., and stuff I leaned at DOE, part 2 2
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Senate confirms Obama’s picks to run Energy, USDA, and Interior 0
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Green groups and Obama’s Energy Sec. mark National Day of Service 1
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
What Obama’s green team has to say about coal 26
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Incoming energy secretary discusses green issues 0
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Landrieu serves up monologue on oil during DOE confirmation hearing 3
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago