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...presentation using Skype, but he could only occasionally be heard. During the question-and-answer session that followed, Sharett lauded University President Drew G. Faust for her commitment to the environment. Harvard’s eco-conscious plans for its new campus in Allston include a voluntary cap on greenhouse gas emissions well below required national standards. The University has committed to keeping carbon emissions 50 percent below national standards in Allston’s new science center and 30 percent below national standards for the rest of the Allston project. “This is the leadership that Harvard...
...Five years later, they have that, and a lot more, in the Center for American Progress (CAP), the most influential independent organization in Obama's nascent Washington. CAP was the brainchild of former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, who dutifully worked wealthy dinner parties with a simple idea: He would create a new organization, a "think tank on steroids," to help progressive ideas regain power. Tom Daschle, once the top Democrat in the Senate, got on board, calling it an "action tank." Sarah Wartell, who would become Podesta's deputy, had a more homely description: "Not your...
...since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway. Just as candidate Obama depended on CAP during the campaign for opposition research and talking points, President-elect Obama has effectively contracted out the management of his own government's formation to Podesta. "The Podesta group was formed to bring Democrats back into the presidency, that was its purpose of being," says Stephen Hess, an expert on presidential transitions at the Brookings Institution, a much more traditional think tank...
...difficult to overstate the influence in Obamaland of CAP, a group with roughly $25 million in annual funding from mostly anonymous individuals, corporations and unions. Podesta himself is leading Obama's transition effort, holding press conferences to speak for the President-elect, with an operation beneath him filled with CAP alum. The transition's operations director, the general counsel and the co-director all have come over from similar jobs at the think tank. At least six other CAP alums or board members, including Daschle and former EPA Commissioner Carol Browner, continue to advise the transition or campaign on matters...
...companies like Exxon? The Action Fund came up with that number. What about the dubious charge that McCain planned a 22% cut in Medicare? That was based on a speculative research paper by the same group. While most political ads cite journalists for their facts, the Obama campaign cited CAP research in nine different ads during the general election. More than five million households received mailers from unions that cited CAP in attacking McCain's policy plans...