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G-20 Is a Precursor to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:04:00 GMT

Andrew Light discusses how the United States can use the G-20 meeting in Pittsgurgh to position itself as a climate leader before the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.

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Tags : G-20, G20, change, climate, copenhagen, energy, global, warming

What Is Climate Adaptation?

Thu, 07 May 2009 15:08:00 GMT

Kari Manlove discusses climate adaptation: what it is, why we should help developing countries, and what we're doing so far. More: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/manlove_video.html

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Tags : adaptation, change, climate, global, obama, warming

The National Clean Energy Project

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:23:01 GMT

http://nationalcleanenergyproject.org/ The Center for American Progress Action Fund and John Podesta hosted a forum entitled “National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy" on Monday, February 23, 2009 in Washington, DC. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the Honorary Chair. The half-day event will brought together a select group of high-level government, business, labor and advocacy group leaders with a focus on developing a plan and key guiding principles to lead the transformation of U.S. energy policy and to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. Attendees included President William Jefferson Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), energy executive T. Boone Pickens, and leaders from government, business, labor, and the non-profit communities. The National Clean Energy Project builds on the August 2008 “National Clean Energy Summit” sponsored by Senator Reid, CAPAF, the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The participants in the summit concluded that inadequate access to transmission was one of the most significant barriers to widespread development of renewable energy. This forum focused on modernizing and expanding the electricity grid, integrating energy efficiency and distributed generation into operation and regulation, rapidly increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy, and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil by examining short- and long-term solutions to replace foreign oil with domestic resources to fuel vehicles and trucks, including natural gas.

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Tags : carbon, chu, clean, climate, energy, environment, green, obama, pelosi, pickens, podesta, reid, renewable, solar, wind

Wired for Progress: Rebuilding America's Energy Infrastructure

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:50:00 GMT

"Wired for Progress Version 2.0," hones in on the key decisions facing Congress and the Obama administration in coming days and weeks as they take up the challenge of rebuilding America's electricity infrastructure. Version 2.0 focuses on the four major hurdles to building a national clean energy smart grid—planning, siting, cost allocation, and ensuring the low-carbon attributes of the electricity. We then examine three broader policy imperatives—grid intelligence, physical and cyber security, and job training and workforce development—that must also be part of this crucial modernization effort. In February, the Center for American Progress published a major report on the urgent need to build a national clean energy smart grid to power an innovative, low-carbon 21st century economy that combats global warming and creates millions of good jobs. Titled "Wired for Progress 1.0," our report - based on an extensive stakeholder outreach process undertaken in partnership with the Energy Future Coalition – detailed the reasons why we need to build this national clean energy infrastructure quickly, and outlined key policy measures to move this complex project forward. In just a few short weeks since that February release, Congress has made progress on drafting concrete legislative language and in building the political will to turn these policies into law. As this debate moves forward, it is critical that the essential features of the proposal remain clear, and the basic outlines of a national compromise be preserved. Reducing our nation's dependence on foreign oil by examining short- and long-term solutions to replace foreign oil with domestic resources to fuel vehicles and trucks, including natural gas, is also an important issue to be addressed. Featured Speakers: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid T. Boone Pickens, founder and chairman, BP Capital Management John D. Podesta, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for America

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Tags : biofuel, carbon, climate, congress, electricity, energy, environment, green, grid, pickens, podesta, reid, smart, solar, technology, wind

National Clean Energy Project - BETA

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:10:00 GMT

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Tags : american, cap, clean, climate, energy, environment, green, progress

What Is Cap & Trade?

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:31:06 GMT

What is cap and trade? How does cap and trade figure into President Obama's budget? What effect will a successful cap-and-trade program have on the economy? Kari Manlove of the Center for American Progress explains the basics of cap and trade, including how a program would work, how it figures into Obamas budget, and how it will affect the economy.

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Tags : american, cap, carbon, climate, economy, environment, obama, progress, tax, trade

National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy PT 3 (FINAL)

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:28:04 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/wired_for_progress.html National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), a longtime champion of building a clean energy economy and Former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former U.S. Senator and United Nations Foundation President Timothy Wirth, business leader and clean energy advocate T. Boone Pickens and Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta. The key theme of the forum: overcoming clean energy infrastructure challenges and reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. The discussion will focus on guiding the transformation of our nation’s energy policies with particular attention on modernizing the electricity grid, integrating energy efficiency and distributed generation into its operation and regulation, rapidly increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy, and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil through natural gas, plug-in hybrids, and batteries in the transportation and distribution system. The National Clean Energy Project builds on the August 2008 “National Clean Energy Summit” sponsored by Senator Reid, CAPAF, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The participants in the summit concluded that inadequate access to transmission was one of the most significant barriers to widespread development of renewable energy. The goal of this forum will be to discuss the best, most cost-effective options to “green the grid” and lay the groundwork for a broad national consensus between as many key stakeholders as possible on a clean energy agenda that will reduce emissions, increase reliability and affordability, and make us more secure and competitive. This important event will influence the development of a new and better national energy policy and should help speed its adoption. Among the list of confirmed participants in the roundtable are many top

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Tags : afl-cio, american, bingaman, biofuel, carbon, chu, climate, clinton, coal, congress, dorgan, earth, economy, electricity, energy, environment, exxon, global, gore, grid, oil, pelosi, pickens, podesta, power, progress, reid, salazar, security, seiu, smartgrid, solar, transmission, warming

National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy PT 2

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:08:06 GMT

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Tags : american, biofuel, cap, chu, climate, clinton, congress, electricity, energy, environment, geothermal, grid, innovation, obama, oil, pelosi, pickens, podesta, power, progress, reid, salazar, science, security, seeprogress, solar, wind

National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy PT 1

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:48:00 GMT

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Tags : american, biofuel, cap, climate, clinton, earth, electricity, energy, environment, fuel, geothermal, gore, green, jobs, obama, oil, pelosi, podesta, power, progress, reid, seeprogress, smartgrid, solar, wind

How Clean Can Coal Be? Tennessee Tidal Wave of Coal Ash

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:38:01 GMT

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/04/coal-isnt-clean/ The coal industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to get out the message of “clean coal,” through front groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, campaign contributions, and an army of lobbyists. But the devastating December 22, 2008 coal ash slurry spill of the Kingston Fossil Plant in rural Tennessee broke through the cacophony of clean coal carolers. This ThinkProgress Wonk Room video is a stark reminder that in reality, coal isn’t clean.

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Tags : ash, cap, clean, climate, coal, electricity, energy, fossil, gas, kingston, oil, progressive, room, slurry, tennessee, wonk

Working with China on Human Rights

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:40:06 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/01/china_human_rights.html Why are China's human rights policies important to the United States? What has the United States done so far to promote human rights in China? And how Can the United States better promote human rights in the country? Bill Schulz of the Center for American Progress addresses these questions in the latest installment of CAP's ASK THE EXPERT series.

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Tags : american, asia, cap, china, climate, democracy, economy, freedom, human, military, progress, religion, rights, tibet, trade

A Green Recovery: Tom Friedman, Carol Browner & Gov Ed Rendell

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:05:02 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/pdf/green_recovery.pdf Introduction by: Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Featured Speakers: Governor Ed Rendell (D - PA) Thomas Friedman, columnist, New York Times; author, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America Carol Browner, Principal, The Albright Group LLC Moderated by: Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress At a time of fiscal belt tightening, when some would put environmental priorities on the back burner, there are many who believe that investing in a green economy now is the best way to achieve both short and long term economic solutions. A recent paper by the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute, "Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low Carbon Economy," finds that to promote economic mobility, growth, job creation, and regain technological leadership in the global innovation marketplace, we must fundamentally change how we produce and consume energy in this country and transform our economy to a low-carbon model. Investing in clean energy and efficiency will enable the United States to regain technological leadership in the global innovation marketplace, grow our economy, reduce global warming emissions, and invest in national security. Please join the Center for American Progress and three of the country's leading advocates for investments in a green economy for a discussion on how each step of an economic recovery package (stabilization, stimulus, recovery, and growth) can be greened, and explore both national and state perspectives on policy solutions towards transforming our economy to a low-carbon model.

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Tags : american, browner, cap, climate, credit, economy, energy, environment, friedman, green, job, money, oil, progress, progressive, rendell, security, seeprogress, technology, tom

HIGHLIGHTS: A Green Recovery, A Low Carbon Economy

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:34:01 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/green_recovery.html ntroduction by: Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Featured Speakers: Governor Ed Rendell (D - PA) Thomas Friedman, columnist, New York Times; author, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America Carol Browner, Principal, The Albright Group LLC Moderated by: Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress At a time of fiscal belt tightening, when some would put environmental priorities on the back burner, there are many who believe that investing in a green economy now is the best way to achieve both short and long term economic solutions. A recent paper by the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute, "Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low Carbon Economy," finds that to promote economic mobility, growth, job creation, and regain technological leadership in the global innovation marketplace, we must fundamentally change how we produce and consume energy in this country and transform our economy to a low-carbon model. Investing in clean energy and efficiency will enable the United States to regain technological leadership in the global innovation marketplace, grow our economy, reduce global warming emissions, and invest in national security. Please join the Center for American Progress and three of the country's leading advocates for investments in a green economy for a discussion on how each step of an economic recovery package (stabilization, stimulus, recovery, and growth) can be greened, and explore both national and state perspectives on policy solutions towards transforming our economy to a low-carbon model.

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Tags : american, browner, climate, economy, energy, environment, friedman, green, jobs, money, oil, podesta, progress, recovery, rendell, technology, tom

Sustainable Security - A 21st Century Approach to Defense

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:07:51 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/sustainable_security Anyone not immediately caught up in the whirlwind of today’s Beltway foreign policy punditry would be driven to hair-tearing at the back-and-forth between defenders of the Bush Administration and the multitude of critics arrayed against it. That’s because while President George W. Bush’s approach has obviously failed, too many of its critics refuse to focus on why. Their alternatives revolve around competence, with perhaps a bit of multilateral fence-mending thrown in. But they also assume as valid the fundamental tenet guiding the Administration’s approach, as defined by George Kennan during the Cold War, that securing the national interest lies in protecting "the continued ability of this country to pursue its internal life without serious interference." While that approach might have been relevant to the era of Cold War containment, it is untenable today. In a globalized world, it is no longer enough to center our foreign policy on a narrowly-defined concept of "national security" that assumes the continued dominance of the nation-state. What is needed is a fundamental change in the terms of the debate to include a realistic assessment of a world that is both interdependent and increasingly fragmented. What is missing is consideration of human security–and why, if we are to promote effectively our sustainable security, it must be incorporated into a modern American foreign policy.

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Tags : american, brigety, cap, climate, defense, development, diplomacy, economy, energy, environment, gayle, globalization, iraq, obama, oxfam, progress, refugee, security, seeprogress, smith, sustainable, trade, war

The Public's Priorities for the Obama Administration

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:28:02 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/11/opinion_govt.html Ruy Teixeira of the Center for American Progress explains what issues were most important to the public on November 4, and what policies they expect from President-elect Obama in the latest installment of CAP's ASK THE EXPERT series.

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Tags : american, bailout, cap, climate, credit, debt, economy, election, energy, environment, estate, health, house, obama, oil, policy, president, progress, real, teixeira, vote, white

The Green Collar Economy - Van Jones of the Center for American Progress

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:21:42 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/energy In "The Green Collar Economy", Center for American Progress Senior Fellow, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal—all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas. Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.

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Tags : american, biofuel, climate, coal, crisis, earth, economy, energy, environment, global, green, jobs, jones, money, oil, poverty, progress, progressive, science, solar, sustainable, van, wind

Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President Part 3

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:52:17 GMT

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/changeforamerica/ Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President is a framework to help the next administration steer the government in a new, more progressive direction. In conjunction with the release, we are hosting a series of exciting panels on economic policy, national security, democracy, and climate change led by the authors of the book. Read About the book and download online exclusive chapters thru the link above.

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Tags : american, cap, care, climate, congress, economy, energy, government, health, iraq, obama, president, progress, progressive, security, street, wall, war

Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President Part 2

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:48:08 GMT

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Tags : america, american, cap, care, climate, congress, debt, deficit, economy, energy, environment, finance, health, house, iraq, obama, president, progress, progressive, security, war, white

The Greening of Newark - Transforming a City

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:43:01 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/green_recovery.html Newark Mayor Cory Booker, along with partners including the Center for American Progress, made a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative to begin the greening of Newark in order to stimulate the local economy, create good jobs and improve the environment. Nationwide, the signs are clear: Our economy is in trouble. Falling home prices, foreclosures, bank failures, a weaker dollar, rising prices for gas, food, and steel, and layoffs in banking, construction, and manufacturing sectors are all indicators of serious economic strain?following a long period in which the middle class went nowhere even while the economy grew as a whole. What?s more, evidence suggests the current downturn will continue for at least another year. At the same time, we face a growing climate crisis that will require us to rapidly invest in new energy infrastructure, cleaner sources of power, and more efficient use of electricity and fuels in order to cut global warming pollution. There is much work to be done in building smart solutions at a scale and speed that is bold enough to meet this gathering challenge. It is time for a new vision for the economic revitalization of the nation and a restoration of American leadership in the world. We must seize this precious opportunity to mobilize the country and the international community toward a brighter, more prosperous future. At the heart of this opportunity is clean energy, remaking the vast energy systems that power the nation and the world. We must fundamentally change the way we produce and consume energy and dramatically reduce our dependence on oil. The economic opportunities provided by such a transformation are vast, not to mention the national security benefits of reducing oil dependence and the pressing need to fight global warming. The time for action is now.

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Tags : alliance, american, apollo, booker, bracken, cap, carbon, cgi, climate, clinton, economy, energy, environment, green, hendricks, jersey, jobs, new, newark, progress

Rebuilding the Economy with Green Collar Jobs

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:04:01 GMT

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/energy What are green collar jobs? What effect will green collar jobs have on the economy? And how can we promote green collar jobs? Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Bracken Hendricks answers these questions in the lastest installment of CAP's ASK THE EXPERT series.

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Tags : american, biofuel, cap, climate, coal, economy, energy, environment, green, hendricks, jobs, oil, progress, seeprogress, solar, wind