November 18, 2009: Obama’s China Trip Yields Climate Progress
President Obama’s trip to China resulted in an agreement to strengthen clean energy cooperation. Obama also said that the U.S. and China hoped global climate talks in Copenhagen next month would produce an agreement with “immediate operational effect.”
Despite U.S. media reports to the contrary, there is still hope that Copenhagen will produce a meaningful climate agreement, argues a piece at Grist.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says the Senate will not begin working on clean energy jobs and climate legislation until the spring.
Republicans are gearing up for the 2010 elections by vilifying Democrats that support clean energy and climate legislation, according to Treehugger.
An Environment California Research & Policy Center study says investing in energy efficiency and renewables would be quicker and makes more economic sense than developing a nuclear power industry.
A Center For American Progress factsheet breaks down America’s clean energy economy in terms of jobs, investment, competitiveness, savings, and the cost of inaction.
With so much controversy swirling around the idea of a cap-and-trade system, a piece from the New Republic (via CBS News) looks at Europe’s system, finding promising results.
Local Green: Maine’s Fox Islands Wind Project began operating this week. It is New England’s largest wind farm.
Houston’s new hybrid electric vehicle program is just one of a host of reasons that some are speculating the city could become an electric vehicle hot spot.
–Christopher Geenspan
Photo courtesy of the White House
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