Posts about Carol Browner Watch as of October 27, 2009

As you know, there has been a tremendous amount of activity on climate change and energy on The Hill over the past year.  The House of Representatives got going fast, even before the 111th Congress got underway.  A leading progressive, hardball-playing Congressman from Los Angeles, Henry Waxman, assumed the chairmanship of the critical Energy and Commerce in a palace coup .  He created a new subcommittee, Energy and the Environment, and installed an outspoken Massachusetts progressive, Ed

Is tomorrow the day of reckoning for the smart grid industry in the U.S., when utilities and companies will finally learn whether or not they will receive part of the close to $4 billion in stimulus funds? It’s starting to look like it. According to suggestions from media reports , a planned Department of Energy press briefing tonight and the DOE Secretary Steven Chu’s talk at Google this morning, Tuesday just might be the big day.

Editing science = lying. We the People deserve to know what’s being pumped into our air, water, underneath the ground and into our bodies. While the last Bush administration edited science to suit the needs of big business, the Obama administration takes their job a little more seriously. They seem to understand that no amount of corporate profit or shareholder praise is worth our health or the earth’s.

Obama asked that … “We judge him by the people he surrounded himself with.” – So be it. Is anyone surprised that the czarina of federal climate and energy policy has ties to a socialist group? The environmental movement’s goal is to afflict the economy, not comfort the ecology. Carol Browner, who’ll run the new White [...]