Sentences with phrase «as obama»
It shouldn't come as a surprise that wind and solar production has grown as the Obama administration has provided tens of billions of dollars in subsidies for these sources and administered regulations that hinder competing energy sources.
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He urged countries to send their heads of state to the Copenhagen negotiations, which in some ways led to the chaotic nature of the event's closing hours as Obama shared the spotlight with more than 120 other presidents and prime ministers, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The president can tap the strategic reserve — as Obama's fellow Democrats are leaning on him to do now — and he can lean on OPEC to release more oil supply into the market.
«Instead, the effort necessary to hold off this one pipeline has kept environmentalists distracted as Obama has opened the Arctic and sold off the Powder River Basin, as he's fracked and drilled.»
Recent EPA policies have cost Kentucky thousands of jobs in coal and related industries and made the cost of electricity skyrocket just as Obama promised he would do in 2008.
But, as Obama embarks on his second term, it's time for him to take some risks.
Such plans, because they will make big money, have powerful backers: When Heather Zichal left her post as the Obama administration's climate czar, she accepted a $ 180,000 - a-year position on the board of the country's biggest gas exporter.
As Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union address, as his reelection campaign geared up, «We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly a hundred years, and my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy.»
As the Obama administration moves closer to a final decision on the pipeline, possibly this year, more environmentalists are publicly questioning the single - minded Keystone focus.
Rod B: «Clearly the governmnet can price coal - fired producers out of existance with tax policies, as Obama has promised.»
Our ability to prosper and drill our own energy source has been taken away while Brazil (as Obama said) is now our Distributor.
«Clearly the governmnet can price coal - fired producers out of existance with tax policies, as Obama has promised.»
Bloomberg.com is reporting comments which they are spinning as indicating as Obama being willing to continue similar levels of support for ethanol as the Bush administration.
And don't dismiss so easily the «sound bite» side shows (Cook, Mann) that have a large influence on the public and on outcome stances, as Obama and the Pope illustrate.
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Bill, we just have a minute, but you talked about this coming as the Obama administration is making a decision about Keystone XL.
More good news for the Arctic as the Obama administration pushes off further offshore drilling in Alaska.
WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration prepares to sign the Paris climate agreement, 350 environmental, social - justice, health and faith organizations filed a legal petition today urging President Barack Obama to declare a national climate emergency and end all U.S. crude oil exports.
req'd) story, «Risks, rewards abound as Obama enters House debate»:
By contrast, Grover Cleveland's presidency averaged more than five times as many hurricanes per year as Obama's.
As Obama noted in his press conference, «Kyoto was legally binding and everybody still fell short anyway.»
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a statement that the repeal ratchets back what he characterizes as the Obama administration's regulatory overreach.
As Obama (I hope) has shown — one gave give off the appearance of integrity and intelligence while lacking even a drop of them!
So why are the environmental movement and their supporters, such as the Obama Administration, pursuing these objectives?
Despite our success to debunk all the semi scientific crap from all the AGW advocates, from Gore, Schmidt, Mann, Rutherford and the gate watchers of the world's temperature data sets, the UN IPCC our Governments and the Sustainable energy mafia, the wheel of social and economic destruction of the Free World is turning as Obama (again) pay's his humble respect to our future Global Government.
As Obama's chief of staff observed:
Positioning themselves as Obama's conscience, particularly in the context of Tar Sands Action, they might be able to attack Republicans for their non-green attitudes, but could also provide ammunition for the right who want to criticise Obama for reneging on environmental promises.
As Obama's top science adviser, he would manage about 40 Ph.D - level experts who help shape and communicate science and technology policy.
A federal appeals court rejected the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's bid for an injunction to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline — a ruling that will allow work to proceed on private land, even as the Obama administration continues its moratorium on federal land.
As long as Obama was in office, Republicans could keep bashing Obamacare without having to provide any specific alternative.
If Congress does not act meaningfully on the climate front, as the Obama Administration (finally) did, a Clinton EPA will continue to use its regulatory authority to reduce CO2 emissions.
But, as Obama has observed, this kind of thing seems alien to US culture.
The prohibition had the potential, over several decades, to surpass the controversial Clean Power Plan as the Obama administration's most significant climate change policy, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
The deal was finalized late Tuesday night as Obama and Xi huddled at Xi's residence in a late - night session that went two hours longer than scheduled.
That is a key question as the Obama Administration prepares to announce its biggest step toward curbing planet - warming carbon emissions.
• Recent bilateral developments — such as agreements between President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Modi in September, as well as Obama - Xi announcement this month.
No net jobs were created in America last month (even as the people needing jobs increased), as the Obama Administration drafted a host of new job - killing regulations and threatened costly lawsuits against employers.
Surprisingly, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's four liberal members (Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagen, and Sotomayor) in the majority, finding that Act was constitutional based on Congress» ability to levy taxes (but not, as the other four justices would have, based on the Commerce Clause as the Obama Administration had originally argued).
They had sufficient success to fool the world into unnecessary energy and economic policies that have cost billions so far and it is not over yet, as the Obama administration attacks on coal illustrate.
Kerry has long warned of the dangers of climate change, and it's been one of his favorite topics to discuss abroad since he was sworn in as Obama's top diplomat.
Read a few recent UK headlines and weep, not only for the UK, but for the U.S. as Obama and Democrats try their damnedest to out - stupid the UK ruling class:
If they go out of business as Obama expects, the economy will collapse as industries dependent on the energy disappear.
The staggering cost of the program has drawn renewed attention, as the Obama administration and Congressional Republicans wrangle over ways to cut the deficit.
As Obama once said, under his plan, energy bills will skyrocket.
That last one's particularly important, as the Obama administration is still considering the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which will run from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast.
The proposal tries to make this interpretation seem black - and - white but, as the Obama EPA showed, there are powerful arguments on the other side.
Nevertheless, as Obama made clear on March 9, «(m) edical miracles do not happen simply by accident.
Few administrations have been as aggressive towards the coal industry as the Obama administration.
«I'm not a fan of regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act [as the Obama administration is doing],» he told me.
But 16 years after the white lab coat protests, Smith was reviving the «secret science» charge just as the Obama administration was finalizing a plan to tighten the fine soot regulations, a move vehemently opposed by coal - fired power generators and oil refiners.
If at the end of four years he's been benign as Obama has been, or — hope of all hopes — delivers on the parts of his platform about which I can agree (and there are several), I'll gladly eat crow.