Lake Tahoe Restoration
President Obama delivered keynote remarks at the 20th Lake Tahoe Summit, an annual gathering of federal, state, and local officials in the Lake Tahoe basin of California and Nevada to discus…
938 viewsPresident Obama delivered keynote remarks at the 20th Lake Tahoe Summit, an annual gathering of federal, state, and local officials in the Lake Tahoe basin of California and Nevada to discus…
938 viewsTodd Stern testified at a hearing on the Obama administration’s environmental policies and goals at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris. Other topics addressed included the Environme…
1,019 viewsFour former Republican Environmental Protection Agency administrators were among the witnesses at a hearing on efforts to address global climate change. The former administrators, invited by…
1,604 viewsFederal officials and climate specialists testified on the Obama administration’s climate change policy. The plan includes a number of executive actions targeting carbon emissions, increasin…
1,520 viewsSenator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) spoke to reporters after chairing a hearing by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about Hurricane Sandy, “Sandy and Its Impacts: A Local Perspecti…
108 viewsLisa Jackson testified on the Environmental Protection Agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget. President Obama’s $10 billion budget request for EPA would cut the agency’s total funding by about $3…
335 viewsThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reconvened its third day of work to consider S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The Senate Environment Committee voted t…
122 viewsThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reconvened the business meeting to consider S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The business meeting recessed to conduct …
742 viewsMembers made opening statements for the markup on the Senate Climate Change and Energy Bill. In an effort to address Republican concerns, Environment Committee Chair Barbara Boxer extended t…
154 viewsThe Senate Environment Committee continued its mark up on climate change and energy legislation. Senate Republicans, who were calling for a completed economic analysis of the bill by EPA, co…
230 viewsIn the afternoon session of the first day of a markup of climate change and energy legislation, Chairman Boxer announced that the first part of the meeting was not officially part of the mar…
90 viewsThis was the third of several Energy and Public Works hearings on global climate change legislation. Among the topics addressed were development of a clean energy economy, transportation, al…
632 viewsCabinet secretaries and Obama administration officials testified on global climate change, focusing on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act- sponsored by Senators Barbara Boxer and J…
480 viewsUtility company executives testified about proposed energy and climate change legislation. Among the topics they addressed were the use and growth of alternative energy production, emission …
278 viewsThe Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works held a hearing on the potential impact of global climate on jobs and the U.S. economy.
172 viewsWitnesses testified about global climate change legislation and ways in which the energy industry could adapt business practices to address environmental concerns. Among the topics they addr…
192 viewsWitnesses testified about global climate change and its potential impact on national security. Among the topics they addressed were potential security challenges posed by displaced populatio…
272 viewsSenate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer talked about the climate-change bill introduced Wednesday, September 30, 2009; an administration plan for new Environment…
133 viewsSenate Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer, and other Democratic Senators spoke to reporters about the introductio…
459 viewsWitnesses testified on climate change, emerging energy technology, and America’s role in clean energy. In the second of 2 panels, witnesses talked about “cap and trade” provisions of propose…
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