Environment & Climate Change

We must end the tyranny of oil in our time. This immediate danger is eclipsed only by the longer-term threat from climate change, which will lead to devastating weather patterns, terrible storms, drought, conflict, and famine. That means people competing for food and water in the next fifty years in the very places that have known horrific violence in the last fifty: Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. That could also mean destructive storms on our shores, and the disappearance of our coastline.

We understand that climate change is not just an economic issue or an environmental concern– this is a national security crisis.

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EPA Moves to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions as U.N. Climate Conference Begins

December 7, 2009 - Today the Environmental Protection Agency finalized its “endangerment finding” on greenhouse gas emissions, formally declaring that carbon and other pollutants are harmful to the public’s health and welfare.
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President Obama to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks

November 25, 2009 - The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in order to work with the international community to drive progress toward a comprehensive and operational Copenhagen accord. The White House also announced that President Obama is prepared to put on the table a U.S. emissions reduction target in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020.
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President Obama Addresses the United Nations General Assembly

September 23, 2009 - This morning, in his first address to the UN General Assembly, President Obama talked about the climate threat again – calling the “preservation of our planet” one of the “four pillars that are fundamental to the future we want for our children.”
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Sarah Palin's Flip-Flop on Cap-and-Trade

July 20, 2009 - But it looks like Sarah Palin's a little unclear on what her policy positions are.
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Climate Change, Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency

June 29, 2009 - Friday night the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act 219 to 212. Only 8 Republicans voted in favor of the bill.
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American Clean Energy and Security Act Goes to Full House Vote Tomorrow

June 25, 2009 - As we’ve been talking about all week, the House is expected to vote tomorrow on the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
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Kaine Strongly Urges House to Pass Historic Bill and Help Jumpstart Our Clean Energy Economy, Create Jobs

June 25, 2009 - Today I call on the House of Representatives to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act, landmark legislation supported by President Obama that will transform the way we use and produce energy in America . The passage of this bill represents the next step towards an energy plan that will help fuel a lasting economic recovery, break our dependence on foreign oil, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create a framework of clean energy incentives to create millions of good, green new jobs.
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Our Clean Energy Economy

June 25, 2009 - With a full House vote expected this week on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (or Waxman-Markey), all eyes turn to the nation’s energy policy.
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Iran, Energy Legislation and Health Care Reform at President Obama’s Press Conference

June 24, 2009 - Today the President held a press conference where he addressed the situation in Iran, energy legislation currently pending in the House and the urgent need for health care reform.
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Clean Energy, Green Jobs and Climate

June 23, 2009 - The Obama Administration is dispatching cabinet secretaries and senior officials around the country this week to highlight the need for comprehensive energy legislation that makes us more energy independent, reduces climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions and creates millions of green jobs.
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