Articles about Barack Obama
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely Weakened
Advocates of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454, or "ACES" for short) argue that the…
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Joe Romm Tries to Shut Down Climate Bill Debate by Attacking Breakthrough Institute
Breakthrough Institute spent the past week analyzing the Waxman-Markey climate bill. We released several objective and…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 5: Foreign Offsets Receive 2.5 Times More Money than U.S. Clean Energy
If all foreign offset provisions in the Waxman-Markey climate bill are used, the cap and trade regime would spend…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 3: Key offset limit eliminated, increasing domestic offset use, lowering allowance prices
The original discussion draft of Waxman-Markey included a key provision that would have required domestic and…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 2: Clean Energy R&D Investment May Be 30 Times Smaller than President Obama's Budget
[Updated 5/22/09: the ACES bill now includes a $10/ton price floor for auctioned pollution permits. The analysis below…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 1: Waxman-Markey Gives Nearly 5 Times More to Polluters than Clean Energy
The landmark Waxman-Markey 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act was introduced in the House this afternoon (May…
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How Fast Can a Big Economy Decarbonize?
Cross posted from Prometheus: The Science Policy Blog Remarkably, with all of the talk of targets and timetables for…
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Is Joe Romm an Energy Challenge Denier?
Is it just me, or is ClimateProgress blogger Joseph Romm working hard to marginalize himself as he reinforces an…
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An Open Letter to Joseph Romm
Joe,Your strategy, as usual, is to shoot the messenger rather than confront the facts. This is what you did when you…
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The Debate Gets Civil: Romm Apologizes For Unfair Attacks
A controversial commentaryin last week's Nature -- arguing that the IPCC greatly underestimated the emissions…
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The Green Politics of Personal Destruction: Deconstructing Joe Romm
Last week, Roger Pielke Jr. and two co-authors published a landmark commentary in the science journal Nature suggesting…
