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This is CAP CEO John Podesta’s Speech at the Department of Interior’s Onshore Renewable Energy Workshop. Thank you, Steve, for that kind introduction, and for inviting me to speak here this morning. And thanks to all of you for your important work leading the United States into a clean energy future
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Clean energy development done right
And above all, we saw a new generation emerge — a generation that uses their own creativity and talent and technology to call for a government that represented their hopes and not their fears, a government that is responsive to their boundless aspirations. … it was the moral force of non-violence…. That’s Obama speaking Friday. I’ve been asked by a couple of ClimateProgress regulars if there are any lessons for climate hawks in the incredible Egyptian revolution. For instance, the 25-year-old Ian of “ What should Ian do with his life? ” fame asks I’m just wondering if you think it would be worth discussing Egypt in the thread this weekend
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Does Egypt hold any lessons for climate hawks?
JR: A key reason the EPA slammed the State Department’s study of the Keystone XL pipeline is that the tar sands crude it would deliver is among the most carbon-intensive of replacements for conventional petroleum (see “ Tar sands — Still dirty after all these years “): X-axis is the range of potential resource in billions of barrels. Y-axis is grams of Carbon per MegaJoule of final fuel. David Sassoon of Solve Climate has a must-read piece on another facet of the pipeline debate, “ Will Obama Reward His Bitterest Political Enemies? ” reposted below: The Keystone XL pipeline, awaiting a thumbs up or down on a presidential permit, would increase the import of heavy oil from Canada’s oil sands to the U.S. by as much as 510,000 barrels a day, if it gets built.
GOP Proposes $1.6 Billion Cut to EPA Budget, Defends $4 Billion in Oil Subsidies Republicans unveiled a budget plan on Wednesday that proposed a $1.6 billion cut [1] to the Environmental Protection Agency, an agency whose authority they have sought to curtail, while business trade groups [2] have complained about the burden placed on them by agency regulations. Politico also reported that the GOP’s proposal would hit the Energy Department hard [3], with a proposal to cut energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in half. Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has said he favors gutting EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions with a “legislative fix” rather than simply denying it funds. (See our overview [4] of Upton’s positions on energy.) He told the Wall Street Journal that his disagreement with the EPA is: “You don’t subsidize different forms of power [5] — you let the market run on its own.” Energy subsidies are not a new thing, and efforts to remove them for oil and gas companies have repeatedly failed in recent years.
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Climate and energy news for February 11, 2011: GOP proposes cutting EPA budget $1.6 billion, slashing solar and wind funding, while defending $4…