]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/congress Blog Articles Tagged with 'congress' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/151268?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Crude oil futures retreated Tuesday to just over $52 a barrel due to unremitting signs of weak global demand, and Russia may coordinate output cuts with OPEC, Bloomberg reports. Natural gas prices will remain soft, tooa new report says gas oversupply... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/151268?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:09 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/151267?rsstype=tag&tag=congress As President-elect Obama gears up for his big clean-energy push, its worth keeping an eye on Californias own green rush, especially since Golden State legislators hold key environment and energy positions in both houses of Congress.Take L.A.s new sol... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/151267?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:53:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/151291?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Legislation and PolicyWe're from the government and we're here to help. Those words strike fear into the hearts of conservatives anywhere. Right now those words probably should be terrorizing those hoping for a l... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/151291?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:32:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/150927?rsstype=tag&tag=congress From Inkstain:Dan Yurman calculates the jobs he thinks would be created by expanding the federal loan guarantees for nuclear power:The Federal loan guarantee program for construction of nuclear power plants, set by Congress at $18.5 billion, could if... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/150927?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:09:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/151105?rsstype=tag&tag=congress As many as 9,000 participants are expected to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's 14th Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Poznan starting tomorrow, including an official US delegation led by Under Secretary... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/151105?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:04:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/151173?rsstype=tag&tag=congress In part one, I suggested four principles that President-elect Obama's economic team should follow as they create an economic recovery package. To sum up, America needs long-term investments in a new energy economy, with every dollar used strategicall... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/151173?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:44:13 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/151295?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Filed under: Green Culture, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily, USAThe plan to drive a slew of Detroit's best new cars from the Motor City to Washington, DC is over before it even got started. Amazingly, there was just too much s... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/151295?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:53:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/151109?rsstype=tag&tag=congress A great opportunity for the US to break free of the foreign oil trap presents itself before the incoming Obama administration and the US Congress, according to the Set America Free Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to breaking America's... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/151109?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:38:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/151303?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Filed under: Tesla Motors, Legislation and PolicyWhen the Detroit automakers went to Washington to press their case for financial assistance to get through their current cash crunch, the hope was to get $25 billion from the $700 billion fund that was... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/151303?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:02:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dateline-earth/151144?rsstype=tag&tag=congress The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiates rule-making to regulate formaldehyde in pressed-wood products. The action comes as Congress investigates a scandal over extremely high formaldehyde levels in mobile homes provided to hurricane victim... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dateline-earth/151144?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:38:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/151111?rsstype=tag&tag=congress The U.S. healthcare system is in sorry shape. The Commonwealth Fund Commission gave the U.S. healthcare system a score of 65 (out of 100) when compared to other industrialized countries. The overall performance of the healthcare system did not improv... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/151111?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/150881?rsstype=tag&tag=congress How important is the lender of last resort role played by central banks?:Financial markets and a lender of last resort, by Eric Hughson and Marc Weidenmier, voxeu.org: The recent subprime mortgage crisis raises serious questions about the role of a l... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/150881?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:24:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/venture-capital-news/151064?rsstype=tag&tag=congress The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called on the Government to nationalise the main domestically-owned banks.... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/venture-capital-news/151064?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:09:52 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/150826?rsstype=tag&tag=congress I have spent the past couple of hours reading the first hundred pages of Thomas Friedman's influential new book titled Hot, Flat and Crowded . It is thought provoking and worth reading if you want to understand some of the discussions and actions th... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/atomic-insights/150826?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:13:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/150885?rsstype=tag&tag=congress George Packer wants Wall Street executives to grow up and apologize for their behavior:The Moral Stage of Wall Street, by George Packer: Swiss bankers are not known as paragons of transparency and moral accountability, so it's a nice surprise toread ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/150885?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:17:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/151029?rsstype=tag&tag=congress We here at OpenCongress would like to wish all of our readers an exceptionally wonderful Thanksgiving. Bon Appetit! Photo from the Library of Congress' Flickr page ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/151029?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:49:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/151030?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Here's a promising first sign that the next administration will have a more participatory style of governing: Change.gov, the official website of the Obama-Biden transition team, has gone interactive. In a blog announcement on Tuesday, the public wa... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/151030?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:37:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/150887?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Moral hazard has its costs, but it also has its benefits : Fed Intervention: Managing Moral Hazard in Financial Crises, by Harvey Rosenblum, Danielle DiMartino, Jessica J. Renier and Richard Alm, Economic Letter, FRB Dallas: Editor's note: Federal a... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/economists-view/150887?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:51:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sierra-club/151312?rsstype=tag&tag=congress James Madison. The Founding Father who gave us a system of checks and balances that, for the past eight years, has stymied an Administration that was hell-bent on dismantling the environmental safety net of the past 100 years. George W. Bush will lea... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sierra-club/151312?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:21:55 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/151253?rsstype=tag&tag=congress I was going to award another satirical turkey to a deserving entity, as I did last year. But then I thought better of it: this is a more optimistic season, and I have decided to go positive and acknowledge some of the great writers and blogs th... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/151253?rsstype=tag&tag=congress Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:13:30 -0500