Posts Tagged ‘Obama’

• Obama says he will attend Copenhagen climate talks, also announces emissions reduction target

  Maybe he liked the city? Either way, President Barack Obama announced today that he will attend the climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December. The climate summit is held between 7-18 December and is the last chance we have to take …

• Watch: Obama scales back goals for America after visiting Denny’s

  Obama will abandon complex policies on emissions, clean coal and refocus on achievable goals like applying deodorant daily, learning what to say when you burp. Don’t worry! It’s just some good’ol satire. Or is it?

• Bill Maher takes on Obama on climate change: “This isn’t what I voted for”

  “This is not what I voted for,” Bill Maher said on his HBO show Friday night, arguing that Barack Obama has maintained his personal popularity but failed to make real progress on climate change, the economy and health care in …

• Obama’s Environmental Policy a Beauty

  Photo credit: jurvetson Advocates for safety in cosmetics have long been hoping for some good news on the regulation of cosmetics by the U.S. government.  With standards in the U.S. being very loose and under regulated as compared to those …

• Gore and Obama to meet privately in Chicago today

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum Today Al Gore, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will meet privately to discuss “energy and climate change and how policies in this area can stimulate the economy and create jobs”. Obama has earlier said that …

• Invite Obama to Poland for the U.N. Climate Meetings

  The global grassroots climate movement, 350, asks for your help to invite President-elect Barack Obama to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland this December. So far over 48,000 “invitations” have been sent. Sign the invitation, click here!

• 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 …