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  • Obama Loves Biomass Thermal

     by Bio­mass Ther­mal Ener­gy Coun­cil, March 23, 2015, Bio­mass Magazine [Bio­mass indus­try groups over­joyed with the President’s most recent sup­port for bio­mass ener­gy. –Josh]  The Bio­mass Ther­mal Ener­gy Coun­cil  and the Pel­let Fuels Insti­tute (PFI) com­mend Pres­i­dent Obama’s com­mit­ment to expand­ing the use of renew­able ther­mal ener­gy with the issuance of Exec­u­tive Order “Plan­ning for Fed­er­al…

  • Obama’s New Year’s Resolution? More Fracking.

    The 2014 US Cli­mate Action Report to the Unit­ed Nations is out. The offi­cial line from the White House is cel­e­brat­ing how the US is going to meet the 2009 Copen­hagen green­house gas emis­sions com­mit­ment. How­ev­er, we read the fine print and here is Barack Oba­ma’s frack­ing plan for elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion in 2020: “Nat­ur­al gas-fired plants…

  • Biofuels Company Granted $4M from DOE after Hosting Obama at Fundraiser

    Green com­pa­ny grant­ed $4M from DOE after financier hosts Oba­ma at DSCC fundraiser - by Lach­lan Markay, Sep­tem­ber 20, 2013. Source: The Wash­ing­ton Free Beacon [Read “Cel­lu­losic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand” to learn more about the bio­fu­els com­pa­ny LanzaTech.] The Depart­ment of Ener­gy recent­ly award­ed a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar con­tract to a green ener­gy com­pa­ny financed by a major Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty fundrais­er…

  • How Europe can Help Obama Achieve U.S. Climate Targets

    How Europe can Help Oba­ma Achieve U.S. Cli­mate Targets - by Glenn Hurowitz, June 28, 2013. Source: Grist As the glob­al leader of cli­mate action, Euro­pean gov­ern­ments want to know how Pres­i­dent Obama’s major cli­mate speech affects Europe – and par­tic­u­lar­ly whether the actions he out­lined can allow the Unit­ed States to reach its com­mit­ment to reduce…

  • Obama and Romney Unite on Destructive Bioenergy Policy

    Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma and Repub­li­can Par­ty Nom­i­nee Mitt Rom­ney may not see eye to eye on issues like same-sex mar­riage, immi­gra­tion, or abor­tion, but when it comes to the can­di­dates’ harm­ful stances on bio­mass ener­gy and bio­fu­els, the two might as well be run­ning on the same ticket. Gov­er­nor Mitt Romney  Tech­ni­cal­ly, Romney’s white paper on ener­gy pol­i­cy, The…

  • To Win Ohio and Pennsylvania, Obama Must Oppose Fracking

    by Alex Lotorto This morn­ing, I was sip­ping cof­fee and watch­ing Sun­day morn­ing talk shows with my par­ents. We talked about the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion when my dad mut­ed the com­mer­cial breaks that con­sis­tent­ly includ­ed fos­sil fuel indus­try commercials. My mom put it sim­ply, “I made phone calls, put up posters, and worked at the [Oba­ma]…