Obama’s Team, Continued – Climate experts get key US posts is the headline from the BBC. John Holdren, a physicist, Harvard professor, and director of the Woods Hole Research Center, has been named Obama’s top science advisor. Holdren is a passionate advocate of early and decisive action on warming. See also this from Woods Hole […]
As of today, we now have the last of the top energy and environment players in place. President-Elect Obama has named former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to be Secretary of Agriculture and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to Interior. See this, including a video of the announcement, from the WaPo. Obama said “How we harness our […]
I’ve posted my thoughts on what’s happened this past year and what the tea leaves tell me for the coming year here: 2008 in Review. Highlights? Obama’s election and his intentions as exemplified in his policy pronouncements and his picks for top positions, more serious environmentalists in key slots on The Hill and a focus […]
I’ve got an article in the latest issue of “Planning,” the magazine of the American Planning Association, on the smart grid. (If you don’t know the important work of the APA, you should definitely see what they’re about and the critical work that planners do, creating and recreating communities.) We look at how we generate […]
That's what European Union Commission President José Manuel Barroso said in light of the final agreement on climate change rules for the 27-nation EU. "We merit our leadership role," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, to whom considerable credit must be given for his intensive shuttle diplomacy recently to make the elements […]
I wrote about the EU meetings here earlier this week and about the UN gathering here last week. Brussels , The leaders of the 27 EU nations gathered today to go over a number of critical matters, not the least among them, energy and climate change. For the full agenda, see this from the EU. […]
An important meeting took place yesterday in which a further display of concern and seriousness about climate change was exhibited by the President-Elect. I referenced his unequivocal post-election statements on energy and climate change here and how there is a critical positive synergy building between the incoming administration and the leaders on energy and the […]
"The Economist" has two great articles in their "Technology Quarterly," one on the state of wind power globally and the other on the Masdar Initiative. "The Economist," as you no doubt know by now, has terrific coverage on energy, the environment and climate change. I wrote about the Masdar Initiative, along with some other big-vision […]
While thousands of delegates and interested parties from all over the world start their second week of deliberations and meetings in Poznan, the EU has been laying the groundwork for a summit at the end of this week in Brussels. In January, the European Commission agreed to work toward an ambitious program of a 20% […]
Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved is the story from the "NY Times" earlier this week. National environmental groups and regional groups like the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition were, understandably, up in arms. The NRDC, for instance, said in their release: "The EPA's concurrence and approval of this defective rule governing coal mining is ecologically […]
I have flagged the "FT's" stellar coverage on climate change and energy on numerous occasions. I just want to stop to highlight the release this week of the third in their three-part series on climate change this year. The first tranche of stories was on science, the second on politics. This week they look at […]
Obama buzz felt at global climate talks reads the headline from the A.P. John Kerry, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, is quoted. “”America is back,’ says Sen. John Kerry, underscoring that Barack Obama’s election signals a U.S. intent to regain a leadership role on climate change. “After eight years of obstruction […]
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