Posts Tagged ‘Democrats’

• 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 …

• 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 …

• George Monbiot: US is a failed state on climate change

  George Monbiot, Europe’s leading green commentator, joins other environmentalists in attacking the recently passed energy and climate bill in USA. Monbiot says the bill “would be laughable anywhere else” but that unfortunately it’s the best we can expect from the …

• US House passes Energy and Climate bill, environmentalists says it’s too weak

  Photo credit: jurvetson This past Friday the House of Representatives in USA voted yes to the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, a cap-and-trade energy bill, by a vote of 219 to 212. This historic climate change bill …

• How are the Candidates Going to Clean America?

  The method in which America creates energy has been a hot topic during the 2008 presidential election. For most, a primary concern deals with how we can keep prices down at the pump while eliminating our need for foreign oil. …

• The League of Conservation Voters Hails Joe Biden

  The Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate and Vice President. But how green is really Joe Biden? Well, it seems he is green enough for the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) to applaud …

• Where is climate change in the USA primaries?

  Libby Rosenthal over at the International Herald Tribune’s Business of Green blog worries, just like me, about the lack of green issues being raised in the US primaries. Having spent the last week in the United States and having watched …