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Study: Americans Think Small for Energy Savings
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- As "going green" has shifted from being an obscure term to a mainstream concept, more and more Americans are becoming concerned about saving energy. But according to a recent survey, many of them have no idea how to go about it in the best way. A survey conducted by Columbia University and published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that more than 40 percent of Americans think the best way to save energy is through small behavioral changes -- turning out lights, raising the thermostat on the AC and driving less. But while small changes do ...
Obama Pushes 'Cash for Caulkers'
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 8) -- Cash for Caulkers may stick as the name. But a program proposed Tuesday by President Obama would give rebates to homeowners for a much broader range of projects to cut energy usage – like insulation, efficient appliances and new windows. And just like the Cash for Clunkers program for people who traded in gas-guzzling cars, the new plan aims to create jobs as well as improve the environment. "I'm calling on Congress to consider a new program to provide incentives for consumers who retrofit their homes to become more energy efficient, which we know creates jobs, ...
Opinion: On Jobs, What's New Is New Again
By John Merline - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- Attention spans are notoriously short in Washington, but this is a bit ridiculous. "President Barack Obama will Tuesday lay out three new approaches to battling the U.S. jobs crisis," said one news account posted before Obama's speech later in the day. The "new" approaches he put forward: more money for roads and bridges, tax credits for energy-efficiency improvements in homes and more help for small businesses. Wait a moment. Didn't the stimulus bill passed just 10 months ago dedicate billions upon billions of dollars to those very areas? Turns out, it did. According to a ...
Obama on Jobs: Edgy Politics, No Price Tag, and TLC for Small Business
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama was taking a brief detour from his teleprompted remarks on jobs. "Sometimes it's hard to break out of the bubble here in Washington and remind ourselves that behind these statistics are people's lives, their capacity to do right by their families," he riffed. He was at that moment deep within the bubble -- standing alone at the lectern of a downtown D.C. think tank, wearing the capital's standard-issue dark suit, addressing a mostly silent audience of scholars and graybeards. I'm going to try not to read anything into the fact that Afghanistan got prime time and an audience of ...
Energy Memo: Democrats Need to Fight Smarter
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats like to talk about green jobs and cap-and-trade. A new strategy memo says they need to ditch those phrases, play down global warming and fight back on what their plans will cost Americans if they want to prevail in the high-stakes energy debate about to erupt on Capitol Hill. ...
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