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CAP’s Romm discusses possibilities for energy, enviro positions in Obama administration (video and transcript)
Monica Trauzzi:, OnPoint
As President-elect Obama begins the transition to the White House, what are his plans for addressing climate during his first 100 days in office?
During today’s OnPoint, Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a former Clinton energy official, discusses the prospects for climate legislation in 2009 and the importance of early action from the new administration.
Romm talks about some potential appointees for positions within the Obama administration and explains how the shift in power may affect K Street lobbyists.
(6 November 2008)
Peak-oil-aware Romm regularly posts at Gristmill. His Nov 6 offering: IEA: Oil price to rebound to $100 when economy recovers, then soar to $200 by 2030.
E&E’s Berman and Kaplun give analysis of presidential, congressional outcomes (video, maybe transcript)
OnPoint, E&E TV
How will President-elect Barack Obama work with an expanded Democratic majority in Congress to move energy and environment legislation? Will Obama need to manage the high expectations some have set for action on energy and climate?
During today’s OnPoint, E&E Daily Editor Dan Berman and E&E political reporter Alex Kaplun discuss the outcomes of the presidential and congressional races. They preview what the Obama transition may look like and explain how Arizona Senator John McCain’s loss will affect relationships in the Senate.
(5 November 2008)
Ottawa swoops in with climate-change offer
Shawn McCarthy and Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing to strike a joint climate-change pact with president-elect Barack Obama, an initiative that would seek to protect Alberta’s oil sands projects from potentially tough new U.S. climate-change rules by offering a secure North American energy supply.
Key federal ministers issued the call for a climate-change pact Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Mr. Obama won his historic election victory, in a clear bid by Ottawa to carve out a key place for Canada on the new administration’s agenda.
Energy security has been a major issue in the U.S. election, and Mr. Obama campaigned heavily on eliminating dependence on Middle East and Venezuelan oil. But he has also condemned the United States’s reliance on “dirty oil” – his advisers have specifically criticized the oil sands – and has promised tougher climate-change action.
…Mr. Obama and congressional leaders have promised to pass national emission limits that were long opposed by Mr. Bush, and some Democrats have been highly critical of the oil sands as a troubling source of new emissions.
U.S. environmentalists argue that Ottawa’s approach to climate change is inconsistent with a serious effort to reduce emissions, and insist the oil sands represent the kind of dirty sources of crude oil that a new administration should be most worried about.
(6 November 2008)
EB contibutor SCL writes:
And to add to the entertainment value, “Alberta wants in on climate negotiations with U.S.
