October 29, 2009: White House Revs Up For Climate Legislation Push
As part of the White House’s intensified efforts to push for climate change legislation, Obama administration officials met with business executives to talk cap-and-trade policy.
Administration officials say they believe the U.S. will be a progressive force at December’s international climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
A piece at Grist dives into the details of the Solar Technology Roadmap Act, passed last week by the House of Representatives.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis spoke about clean energy and green jobs at the Solar Power 2009 conference.
The Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act, introduced by Representative Dan Meffei, D-NY, would lure clean energy businesses to cities with an already existing industrial workforce and infrastructure.
America needs a manufacturing strategy that will capture the good paying green jobs of the emerging clean energy economy, says AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Rob Perks takes a state-by-state view of a new national study that says climate legislation could create nearly 2 million jobs.
Climate scientists have already debunked the “global cooling myth” proposed in the bestselling book Superfreakonomics. Now economists are attacking the book’s arguments from an economic standpoint.
Local Green: The newly constructed, LEED-certified, Eltona Apartments offer affordable homes to low-income residents of the South Bronx.
–Christopher Greenspan
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