Government subsidies for electric vehicles and solar panels are an important tool to help accelerate a clean energy economy. However, a top White House economic advisor said on Monday that the Trump administration is looking to end such federal incentives, Reuters reported. Sweeteners for purchasing EVs and other Obama-era items could be eliminated in as […]
The 44th United States President Barack Obama will be the guest of honor at the 2017 Seeds&Chips Global Food Innovation Summit. Obama will be a keynote speaker on May 9, and will also discuss food and agriculture on a panel with Sam Kass, senior food policy advisor to President Obama and promoter of the White […]
Appearing live on television and via a livestream, President Barack Obama offered his official farewell address Tuesday evening from Chicago. He touted the climate policies he’s passed over the last eight years and stressed the need for “bolder” action. He said: [W]ithout some common baseline of facts; without a willingness to admit new information, and […]
By Tim Radford Barack Obama, outgoing president of the U.S., has stepped directly into the climate debate. He believes that the U.S. is on the way to a “clean energy” world and he delivers four reasons why he thinks the shift is now irreversible. In an article for the journal Science, President Obama said that […]
As the curtain comes down on President Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House, most Americans seemed convinced of one of two things: We’re either about to Make America Great Again®, or we’re about to hurtle into an uncertain epoch that I like to call the Idiocene. But before we turn the page on […]
President Obama used his authority under the Antiquities Act to protect two large areas in the western U.S. The new Bears Ears National Monument in Utah preserves 1.35 million acres containing 100,000 significant Native American sites, while the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada sets aside 300,000 acres, also home to Indigenous archeological sites. Protection […]
By Steve Horn President Obama announced Tuesday what amounts to a ban of offshore drilling in huge swaths of continental shelf in both the Alaskan Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, a decision which came after years of pushing by environmental groups. Using authority derived from Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the […]
By Jon Queally While President Obama said his administration is willing to let “things play out” for a few more weeks when it comes to the escalating effort by Native American tribes to stop a pipeline in North Dakota, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) offered a distinctly more urgent response on Tuesday by saying “Damn right” […]
President Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio will meet at a White House event Oct. 3 to discuss ways to combat climate change. Exciting news: @POTUS will be joined by @LeoDiCaprio for a conversation on combating climate change at #SXSL: https://t.co/eMPiKavm8y pic.twitter.com/o7Gp0cNhBV — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) September 25, 2016 At the inaugural South by South Lawn […]