Obama’s Green Acheivements in 100 days

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As much as we’re up in the “north”, Canadians really do care about what the US is planning in all areas of policy, including carbon! Whether we follow US policy or develop our own set of policies is another matter, but whatever the Obama administration has/will have implement can affect us greatly. This is a pretty good article summarizing what Obama has done in his first 100 days in the office. I’ve extracted the summary section of it:

Announcing plans to regulate coal-ash waste in the wake of last December’s catastrophic spill
Signaling that they intend to take a closer look at permits for mountain-top removal, the controversial coal-extraction process (though they later made it clear that this should not be interpreted as eliminating the practice)
Cutting off funding for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada
Creating a Clean Energy Service Corps as part of the landmark expansion of AmeriCorps
Streamlining the loan guarantee program at the Department of Energy, which gave out its first loanto a solar company on March 20
Planting an organic White House vegetable garden.

I guess these initiatives are great, but haven’t really get down to the carbon business. Carbon Tax? Cap and Trade? Hybrid? It’s interesting to see what’s going to happen!

LoLee Green

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