Sentences with phrase «obama team»

The Obama team called this «targeted sharing.»

Best I can tell, the Obama team has no intention of doing either at this time... But I've wracked my brain trying to think of ways to retool America around clean - power technologies without a price signal — i.e., a tax — and there are no effective ones.

Full text after the jump TreeHugger: The Obama team asked B Corporation for suggestions on how to run various parts of its policy.

And although he has to deal with internal squabbles about whether cap and trade or a carbon tax is the best way to bring down greenhouse gas emissions, at least the Obama team does agree on the goal.

Yet to make it a truly productive agreement the Obama team needs to remember that «all of the above» should entail a true trade.

Brown, Donald (2009) Ethical Problems With Some of Obama Team's Approach to Climate Change?

The Obama team declined to comment on such a post, even as environmentalists and power industry executives say it's being widely discussed inside the transition offices as a way to spur a clean energy industry, which Mr. Obama has promised will ween the U.S. from foreign oil and create millions of «green jobs.»

For one thing, the process of repealing these rules can grind on for years because of all the legal theatrics (you can bet the coal companies will be fighting tooth - and - nail to ensure the Obama team does not succeed).

For weeks, there's been a growing chorus — from the incoming Obama team to community - welfare campaigners and environmental bloggers — pushing for building the economic revival around «green jobs.»

There will undoubtedly be tension within the Obama team between those seeing the climate - energy challenge mainly as a technology problem (putting a price on pollution, pushing efficiency, but also rebuilding the innovation pipeline) and those seeing it still as an old - style pollution problem (regulate or price the pollution and the technology will come to take it away).

The Obama team must focus on the both aspects, technology through R&D investments and regulation through cap and trade.

Former education secretary Margaret Spellings said Friday that the Obama team has «taken some bold stands» but that Democrats must be judged on whether they seek to alter the law's pillars.

Their new regulations ordered states to establish a single statewide definition of «ineffective teacher» (thus requiring states to adopt one - size - fits - all evaluation systems like those the Obama team had long championed).

And, just as the Bush crew did, the Obama team likes to paint its policy opponents as people who prefer the status quo, a passive - aggressive way of saying that these folks don't care as much about kids as the education secretary does.

The challenges ahead These and other innovations should resonate with the Obama team and get Oregon to the starting block.

(«Obama Team's Advocacy Boosts Charter Momentum,» June 17, 2009.)

In short, another policy collision is at hand between teacher unions and the Obama team.

When concerns were raised, the Obama team tended to be dismissive of critics.

In weighing their options, members of the new administration would do well to read Chad Aldeman's reflections on their predecessors» efforts to overhaul how American teachers are evaluated, an agenda the Obama team pursued through a series of incentives for states devised within the executive branch (see «The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, in Hindsight,» features).

The Obama team has already offered its own answers to these questions, but ESSA's timeline will force the next president to make his or her own decisions quickly.

First, the exit of the Obama team may mollify conservative legislators and state board members, helping Common Core proponents in the scramble to fund implementation and adopt new assessments.

First, a Trump Administration will almost surely rip up some of the regulations the Obama team has drafted to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

They will likely rescind the policy guidance promulgated by the Obama team that applied «disparate impact theory» to the issue of school discipline.

The battle fought over reauthorization of NCLB in 2007 offers a preview of the challenges the Obama team will face.

The bipartisan team that Bush 43 assembled behind this measure on Capitol Hill is long gone and the Obama team has been plenty busy with other matters.

But the Duncan - Obama team pushed ahead on SIG with fervor.

«It's hard to know how much of this budget was in place before the Obama team got in,» he says.

Or, amid reports that the Administration and Congress may soft - pedal climate change legislation this year, perhaps the Obama team doesn't want to highlight the issue.

Art Wood, chairman of the Hillsborough County Republican party that covers Tampa, said that watching the Obama team gather their forces while his side was having to put direct campaigning on hold was «very painful.

The scale of the Obama team's outreach is startling by comparison to the Republicans.

Revealing that Labour has been in discussion with the Obama team for over a year, he said: «Their key campaigning insight in an age of cynicism about politicians is word of mouth.

«There's no question the legislature and the governor made it more of a challenge» to register Democrats this year, said Dan Gelber, a former legislator from Miami Beach who has been assisting the Obama team with voter registration.

If the Obama team strikes out, why not give the lady from Alaska a few swings at bat to show what she can do.

The poll shows the Obama team has been particularly effective in contacting demographics that are important to its turnout efforts, including liberal Democrats (42 percent say they have been contacted), non-whites (24 percent) and people who voted for Obama last time (31 percent).

Heck, just months ago the Obama team made similar threats in the transgender - bathroom battle.

I think that the Obama team did a fantastic online effort.

Romney had said he had a state - of - the - art analytic operation, only to find that his campaign's get - out - the - vote technology crashed on Election Day and that the Obama team had far more - advanced information about voters.

While Paterson had already heard rumblings from the Obama team, the conversation changed on Friday night when it became clear the message was coming from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

The event is the latest example of efforts by the Obama team to replicate its creative use of the Internet during the election campaign.

But the Obama team had a solution in place: a Facebook application that will transform the way campaigns are conducted in the future.

The Obama team has been knocked for bringing «Chicago style» politics to Washington — but if you ask us, things down there are starting to smell suspiciously like... Albany.

First of all, I am pretty sure the Obama team didn't use a «data processing machine.»

Of course all of this is no accident, and the Obama team takes great care in cultivating their list.

It is revealing that the Obama team has identified independent college educated men in their 20s and 30s as the keyswing constituency.

Plouffe's response was that campaigns need to take negative messages spread online from person to person as seriously as they would a negative TV ad or a direct attack from an opponent in a public appearance, providing yet another example of the extent to which the Obama team understood the changed media environment in which they ran.

Not going to happen — our nominee will be Romney, the one that Obama team fears the most and considers him the biggest threat.

It is refreshing to see that blacks are finally standing up to express their frustration with the Obama team treating them as a group of robots will to put up with everything he spews.

Because of my participation on this blog, which bears the name conservative (albeit postmodern), I have evidently not yet made it on the list of potential appointees to the Obama team.

In 2011, the Obama team predicted growth would soar to 4 percent a year in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

The Obama team called this «targeted sharing.»