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...Administration official what to expect legislatively this year and the answer will probably fall along these lines: reregulation of the financial markets, followed by the budget, health care and then green jobs. It is a massive agenda for President Barack Obama's first year in office, and already some in the environmental community are worried that their agenda will be sacrificed. Global-warming issues face particularly tough obstacles, especially at a time when the prophets of other crises proclaim more-imminent doomsdays. Obama, says Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, "is taking on an awful lot of sacred...
...result, Republicans want to see all revenue brought in from the cap-and-trade system returned to consumers, potentially as tax rebates. Obama, by contrast, would keep 20% to invest in his green-jobs program. Republicans have also said they would not support a bill that does not include money to expand the nuclear industry - something opposed by many Democrats and environmentalists. There is also disagreement over the involvement of other countries in any potential market and how best to help developing nations build up clean technologies...
...bill passed this year. And while the Administration has not held an energy summit as it did for health care, Obama has had an easier time hiring and confirming staff on the environmental front than on the economy or health-care fronts. For example, Obama's special adviser for green jobs, Van Jones, started work at the White House's Council for Environmental Quality on Monday. "There is more action and emphasis than we've ever seen before," says Phyllis Cuttino, director of the Pew Environment Group's Domestic Climate Campaign. "We've seen more commitment from this Congress than...
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...country, about the bonuses." Indeed, outrage was the theme of politician, pundit and President of the United States at each new revelation about the bonuses paid out of federal bailout money to AIG executives. There was so much outrage, in fact, that furious red overtook St. Patrick's green as the color of the day. But in the end, what were the outraged - as well as the hapless Geithner - going to do about it? (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...