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Obama on Climate Change

Climate Change

by  |  on November 18th, 2008  |  0 comments

This video from President-Elect Barack Obama talking to the attendees at the Governors' Global Climate Summit is unequivocal.  (See my post from November 13 below on the summit.)  Obama reaffirms his support for a vigorous cap-and-trade regime and for truly robust federal support for renewables.

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Read more about this at the "NY Times" – Obama Affirms Climate Change Goals.  See also this item at Dot Earth, the "NYT" blog on climate change, energy and the environment.

Now we're cooking with gas, as the old, and one-day-soon-to-be-archaic expression has it!

 

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Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt has been an environmental activist and professional for nearly 25 years. He was deeply involved in the battle to curtail acid rain, and was also a Sierra Club leader in New York City. He spent 11 years in public affairs for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked on environmental issues for two NYC mayoral campaigns and a presidential campaign. He is a writer and editor and is the principal of Hewitt Communications. He has an M.S. in international affairs, has taught political science at Pace University, and has graduate and continuing education classes on climate change, sustainability, and energy and the environment at The Center for Global Affairs at NYU. His book, "A Newer World - Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis," will be out from the University Press of New England in December.



Areas of Focus:
the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change

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