CANCUN, Mexico – The private sector has a leading role to play in climate change mitigation efforts. One example is the cattle industry in Brazil where the private sector and NGOs are working together. A group of NGO leaders discussed sustainable farming practices in the Bellona room at the Cancun climate change meeting on Tuesday 7th December.
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WASHINGTON – BP is preparing for a so-called “top kill” in another of its hopes at clogging the leak in the Gulf of Mexico that has been gushing for 36 days. The top kill is a measure not everyone is sure about, but seems to be one of BP's last remaining options.
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WASHINGTON – In the last couple of weeks, Charles Digges’ eye-witness coverage of the oil spill disaster in Louisiana has ensured that you and all the readers of www.bellona.org are well-informed about developments as they happen.
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WASHINGTON – Bellona USA was pleased to welcome Bloona President Frederic Hauge and other Bellona Oslo staff to Washington DC and New York in the last week of April as they acquainted themselves with Washington goings-on, and, unexpectedly, how the United States deals with a major oil spill.
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WASHINGTON – The Republican win of Scott Brown in Massachusetts – a traditional Democratic bulwark – in a special election held to fill the Senatorial seat of the late Ted Kennedy has shaken up US Congress, which, until today, held the upper hand over the Republicans. Brown’s win, meanwhile, puts a question mark over the passage of energy and climate legislation, including a cap-and-trade scheme.
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LONDON – Since Monday, two issue have been gaining in importance for the US delegation to the Copenhagen climate talks, which will stand President Barack Obama in better stead with his international colleagues, but could put him at protracte loggerheads with industry at home.
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WASHINGTON – Thanksgiving week has descended on Washington, so Congress is adjourned. The Administration of President Barack Obama, however, is in the heat of preparations for COP 15, which White House officials have confirmed Obama wil be addressing on December 9th while he is in the neighbourhood to pick up his Nobel Prize in Oslo on December 10th.
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WASHIGTON – As usual, politics – mainly the healthcare debate – dominates discussion her in the US capital. Yet, Copenhagen, energy, and climate change are also very much in the spotlight, and the daily reports from Capitol Hill on the climate bill, now out of Senate Committee and on to other committees, and other US green efforts are so numerous and varied that trying to cover them all is like trying to drink from a fire hose.
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WASHINGTON – The United States has seen a drop in its carbon emissions, thanks in part to alternative power initiatives, as stricter transport and auto emissions and fuel standards. But Congressional hopes are low that this will translate into bonafide climate legislation before December’s Copehagen climate negotiations.
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WASHINGTON – Congress has finally adjourned and the President has gone for a well-earned vacation. This is standard operating procedure for Washington DC in August when the hot and humid weather forces everyone to slow down. The politicians will be back in September after consulting their constituents on the economy, health care and climate change.
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ASPEN, Colorado – In a historic victory today, the House of Representatives voted 219 - 212 to approve a comprehensive global warming bill that sets mandatory limits on US greenhouse gas emissions.
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WASHINGTON – The Administration of US President Barack Obama has revived financial support canceled by the Bush administration for FutureGen, the United States’ first coal burning plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS).
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WASHINGTON – On May 15th, Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a big step toward building US climate change policy with the release of a 932-page bill that is expected to be approved by the committee by the end of this week. If passed by the committee, the bill will than face scrutiny from other House committees. The Senate has yet to consider climate change legislation.
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WASHINGTON – The world’s major economies wrapped up a climate change discussion that fell slightly short of expectations with President Barack Obama, while committees in the House of Representatives continue to debate climate change legislation.
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WASHINGTON – As mentioned in the last Washington View, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held numerous hearings on Capitol Hill last week highlighting the climate change debate and the need for the US to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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WASHINGTON – Congress is back in session, and President Obama has returned from Europe. Washington DC is humming with activity.
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WASHINGTON – As the Easter break approaches, US climate change politics are firmly centered in Congress – which is perhaps as it should be.
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WASHINGTON – Nearly two months after President Obama’s inauguration, the US Congress is working hard to write legislation that could ultimately reduce US greenhouse gas emissions. But this is taking place in the middle of the worst economic downturn for 70 years, a fact often raised by the opponents of new climate change solutions. This Washington View examines the major issues under discussion on Capitol Hill and how the debate is shaping up.
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WASHINGTON – Trying to fix the battered economy dominates conversation in the US Capital, but energy and climate change are poised to get some robust attention in 2009.
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WASHINGTON - It may have taken the help of a Nobel laureate and a financial crash, but US congress seems to be getting a shivering picture of the climate on a cold winter’s day in Washington. Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Clinton Vice President warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday of climate change’s dire consequences, and the US House of Representatives passed a$50 billion energy package, which will now go to the Senate for approval.
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Today in the USA is Martin Luther King's Birthday, a national holiday to commemorate a brave African American who perhaps more than anyone else laid the foundation for Barack Obama's historic election as the 44th President of the United States.
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Washington DC buzzing with chatter about the Obama transition. Environmental groups press for action early in 2009. Obama affirms his climate change goals. But the economy will dominate when Obama takes office. Orzag appointment as OMB czar will be helpful.
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