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Hitting the Ground Running

The White House website already has a page on the “New Energy for America” plan.  They’re on it!

An article in this week’s edition of “EERE Network News” from DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, talks about President Obama’s inaugural address and its reference to renewables:   how the US will “harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.”  It also notes that the address confronted climate change by saying “with old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to … roll back the specter of a warming planet.”

The new Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, has said “I will be a strong and forceful advocate for the wise stewardship of our nation’s land and water resources, I will help us build a clean energy economy for the twenty-first century ” (See the release.)

For more on the focused, smart, committed, progressive group that Obama has assembled on energy, the environment and climate change, see Obama’s Team and Obama’s Team, Continued.

 

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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.



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