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Bush: the uncompassionate, anti-technology president
Dubious 2009 energy budget released |
Joseph Romm |
05 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| On the heels of giving away the (decorative) centerpiece of his climate technology effort, NeverGen FutureGen, Bush released a heartless and mindless FY09 energy budget yesterday. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent around an email on the President's Budget Request for FY2009 (I will post budget details later). Bingaman is 'pleased to see overall growth in the DOE budget, particularly in the area of basi ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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The year ahead
What will it take to make 2008 great? |
Joseph Romm |
04 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following guest post is by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), originally published on Climate Progress. He is the co-author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy. ----- Now that our New Year's Eve party hats are put away, it's time to look to the next year in the battle against global warming. In the year 2007, some good things did indeed happen on this front. Measures significantly improving car mileage standards and promoting the growth of re ... |
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| Topics: brilliance, carbon trading, climate, energy, George Bush, green living, innovation, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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'Technology, technology, blah, blah, blah'
Bush climate speech follows Luntz playbook |
Joseph Romm |
29 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Bush has given us a new drinking game: Down a shot whenever the President uses the word 'technology' in a climate speech. You'd get 19 shots for yesterday's 21 minute speech! As predicted, Bush closely follows the Frank Luntz playbook on how to seem like you care about the climate when you don't. Bush stated the basic do-nothing message well: Our investments in research and technology are bringing the world closer to a remarkable breakthrough -- an age of clean en ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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