In a move that I find personally exciting as a scientist, Obama has decided to nominate, not a career politician, but a career scientist for the post of Secretary of Energy, one could happily say an “elite” scientist. Â Dr. Stephen Chu is a trained biochemist and physicist who won the ...
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Much as I hate using the expression “believing in global warming” - like it’s akin to believing in fairies, or something.
Perhaps “who believes that global warming is man-made” is a better way of putting it.
Anyway: the man hotly tipped to be named the new American ener...
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Posted by
Suzanne Lehn
· 3:33 pm
· Energy · Environment · Government & Politics · International Relations · Media & Internet

Amazed Parisians are still reeling after discovering billboards featuring President Sarkozy, pictured as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, after Shepard Fairey's famous poster, with the wonders working comment Yes We Can! Suzanne Lehn gives us a chronological break down of what happened and how the Yes We Can slogan became Yes We Must!
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In a secret ballot vote, the House Democratic caucus has removed the Michigan Rep. John Dingell from his chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce panel in favor of California Rep. Henry Waxman. The change may presage a shift in the House in favor of much more purist and extreme leftist views on a...
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Barack Obama’s election as the next US president could usher in a new era of solar energy development in the United States, but economic difficulties may prove a barrier to some of the more
expensive renewable initiatives, according to Gartner, Inc.
“Demand for solar energy remains ...
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Around the world, leaders have mostly greeted the election of Barack Obama with enthusiasm, some of which is routine “congratulations to the new guy†you’d get with any U.S. election and some of which is no doubt informed by exhaustion with the President Bush years and a sincere a...
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Posted by
Juliana Rotich
· 8:27 pm
· South Africa
For envrionment bloggers around the world, hopes are high for the Obama Administration. After Obama's victory in the Presidential election last week, however, can he maintain the high expectations people have for him and his policies? This group of environment bloggers have begun ranking proposals and issues they hope Team Obama will begin tackling.
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Its kinda funny to see people supporting Obama or McCain in Kuwait
Some are using argument that one of them is better than the other , some are still connected to the republican party ( by feeling of gratitude for Bush Sr part in liberation of Kuwait )
some liberals are still liberal , want to s...
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Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman look at what happened in the campaigns yesterday (clue: John McCain and Sarah Palin talked a lot about coal), and what the McCain camp have to do to win:
And here was the end of Obama’s final speech yesterday, in Virginia, where he spoke to a crowd of 90,000...
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Yesterday we published the audio of an interview Barack Obama gave to the San Fransisco Chronicle in January of this year. During the interview, Sen. Obama said that his energy plans would cause the prices of energy to “skyrocket” and he would put a system in place that would cause all n...
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