Two congressmen will be holding hearings to investigate how well companies have responded to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – still stubborn to clean-up operations. U.S. Representatives Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak sent letters requesting the testimony of officials from BP America,Transocean and Halliburton. BP is the one who operates the [...]
The Announcement: The Obama administration has approved the nation’s first offshore wind farm, off Cape Cod, essentially moving the U.S. closer to harvesting an untapped domestic energy source – that is the steady blowing coastal breeze. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced his decision in Boston last Wednesday, clearing the way for a 130-turbine wind [...]
Politifact, the fact-checking project of the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, gives Obama a “No Flip” on the Flip-O-Meter in his announcement to expand offshore drilling in previously banned places. Politifact reports that Obama is keeping a campaign promise: He did a “Half Flip” in the middle of his campaign when gas prices had skyrocketed and [...]
US President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off of Virginia and is considering opening up significant additional stretches along the Atlantic and Alaskan coasts in a reversal on a formal ban on drilling. The plan offers but few concessions to environmentalists, who have been vociferous in their opposition to more oil platforms [...]
February 22, 2010 – 8:22 pm
Did you know that sometime in this remaining lifetime of yours you might find yourself driving a nuclear-powered car? ‘Tis true, ’tis true. You also might be driving a solar-powered, wind-powered, landfill-gas powered, hydroelectric powered, ocean-energy powered, coal, oil or natural gas-powered car. ‘Tis true, ’tis true. As it stands the US gets about 20% [...]
February 21, 2010 – 7:51 am
In its keenness to woo Republicans with nuclear-friendly policies, the Obama administration plans to hand out $54.5 billion in government-backed loans to jump-start a nuclear renaissance. On Tuesday, it announced the first beneficiary of this munificence—and apparently the best candidate it could find was a proposed plant that has been put on hold by federal [...]
November 30, 2009 – 1:11 pm
Last week I wrote about how U.S. President Barack Obama will be attending a Copenhagen discussion on international global warming concerns; this week that news seems to be a bit drowned out, what with “Climate Gate” owning headlines and the blogosphere, and all. As many of you know, last week, an anonymous group of hackers [...]
November 27, 2009 – 5:49 pm
Next month U.S. President Barack Obama will attend a global climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. His objective is to spell out the U.S. goal for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. The president says that he will take part in the conference on Dec. 9, before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama will [...]
November 16, 2009 – 5:28 pm
Global warming may have most citizens snoring but not if you live in beautiful Kailua, Hawaii, a suburb of Honolulu where the Obamas spent their last two family vacations – or anywhere in the Hawaiian Islands for that matter. The beaches on these Pacific Ocean islands are becoming smaller and smaller by the day. If [...]
November 4, 2009 – 10:38 pm
President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency. He has told his health secretary to suspend federal guidelines at hospitals and speed the process of treating infected people. In other words, he has directed Health and Human Services chief Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules when opening alternative care sites, such [...]
