Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

• Obama may still buckle on Keystone

  So Keystone has become a high-stakes political chess game following the president’s decision to kill the project. This Talking Points Memo article says Republicans have no expectations of getting Obama to sign infrastructure legislation including a Keystone rider, but they’ll …

• Obama Keystone statement bodes ill for future of climate

  If President Obama’s thoroughly embarrassing stumbling-block posture at Durban left any doubt about the softness of his conviction on climate change, the Keystone decision has just nailed the notion. Yes, it’s great that the pipeline is dead, and everyone from …

• US rejects controversial Keystone XL pipeline

  The US state department has denied a permit for the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline, that once constructed would transport dirty and climate killing tar sands from Canada to the US and other world markets. One of the world’s most …

• Controversial Pipeline Could Hurt Obama’s Hopes for Reelection

  President Obama may face a considerable amount of opposition from supporters if he moves forward in green lighting a pipeline that would run from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. Obama’s approval ratings have recently been on the decline, and with his …

• The environmental record of Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry

  Next year on November 6 it’s time for general elections in the USA but the political campaign work in both parties has already begun. At the moment it’s the Republicans and their primary that is in the prime spotlight. The …

• Al Gore says Barack Obama has failed to tackle the climate crisis

  In an essay titled “Climate of Denial“, published by the Rolling Stone magazine, the former Vice-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore criticizes President Barack Obama for failing to do enough to tackle climate change. Gore does acknowledge the …

• The energy-independent future that never was

  Bernie Sanders, the only democratic socialist in the US Senate, says that the single most important lesson we can learn from the ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is that drilling is not the answer. Sanders also …

• Greenpeace: Obama must shelve Arctic drilling plans, call for offshore moratorium

  In light of the ongoing offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Greenpeace is demanding that President Barack Obama cancels Arctic drilling plans and calls for an offshore moratorium. The Deepwater Horizon accident has resulted in eleven lives …

• Watch: Barack Obama explains basic climate science

  During a visit to Henderson Nevada, President Obama explained basic climate science for the people who had gathered to listen to him at the town hall. “First of all, we just got five feet of snow in Washington and so …

• We must go from capitalism to socialism to tackle climate change, says Hugo Chavez

  In an interesting interview during COP15 Amy Goodman from Democracy Now asks Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, about his view of the climate summit in Copenhagen, climate change, USA, and the huge oil reserves in Venezuela. Watch it: “AMY GOODMAN: …