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Killing Emissions Law Would Hurt Alternative Energy Industry
California’s Proposition 23 seeks to suspend a 2006 law (AB 32) intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. DAVID CHENG Available for a limited number of interviews, Cheng is a senior manager at the Cleantech Group a research and advisory company focused on clean tech innovation. He is also a member of E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), a…
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How Upton Sinclair Helped Energize the New Deal: Lessons for Today
GREG MITCHELL Mitchell wrote the book The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics. A new edition has just been released. Excerpts of the book and relevant videos are available Mitchell, who writes the Media Fix blog for TheNation.com, just wrote the piece “Upton Sinclair’s…
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* Public Citizen: Rove Breaking the Law * Spoof Corporate Money Ads
ROBERT WEISSMAN, via Angela Bradbery KEVIN ZEESE President of Public Citizen, Weissman said today: “American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS [created by Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie] are this year’s poster children for everything wrong with our campaign finance system in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election…
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Oil Price Gouging Behind Drive To Stop Greenhouse Gas Caps
California’s Proposition 23 seeks to suspend a 2006 law intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As of October 8, oil company Valero has donated more than $4 million to the effort to suspend the law. JAMIE COURT Court is author of the new book The Progressive’s Guide To Raising Hell: How To Win Grassroots Campaigns…
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Education: Rhee’s Resignation
Bloomberg is reporting: “Michelle Rhee, the public schools chancellor of the District of Columbia … has resigned, effective at the end of the month. Deputy Chancellor Kaya Henderson will take over, Rhee’s boss, Mayor Adrian Fenty, said at a press conference today. Fenty lost his bid for re-election Sept. 14 in a primary in which…
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What About Water Infrastructure?
WENONAH HAUTER, via Kate Fried Executive director of Food & Water Watch, Hauter said today: “President Obama’s recently-announced infrastructure plan aims to modernize crumbling roads, rails and airports while providing jobs for the nearly one-in-five construction workers who are unemployed. Another way Obama could modernize our infrastructure while boosting the economy is to renew America’s…
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National Implications of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measure
California’s Proposition 23 seeks to suspend a 2006 law intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As of October 6, contributions to Yes on 23 from oil interests Valero ($4,059,678) and Tesoro ($1,525,000) make up more than half of all Yes on 23 contributions. TYSON SLOCUM Slocum is director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program and can…
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IMF and World Bank Meetings
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are holding their annual meeting in Washington, D.C. this weekend. COLLINS MAGALASI ERIC LeCOMPTE, via Julia Dowling Magalasi is director of the Malawi Economic Justice Network. LeCompte is executive director and Dowling is communications coordinator of the Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of more than 75 religious…
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Has the Nobel Peace Prize Been Corrupted?
The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is scheduled to be announced on Friday. FREDRIK HEFFERMEHL Author of the new book The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted, Heffermehl argues that the Nobel committee has violated the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will, which established the prize. He states that for decades, the parties…
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Solar Panels: The Green House?
Today Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced solar panels will be put on the White House. HARVEY WASSERMAN Author of Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, AD 2030 (which includes an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), Wasserman said today: “We have been fighting for three decades to get the solar features restored to the White House roof.…