A Quiet Green Win

A Quiet Green Win for Obama on Auto Efficiency

July 29, 2011 - Many of President Obama's progressive supports have soured on him in recent months, as the debt crisis and a Republican House has forced him to embrace deep spending cuts, and environmentalists are among them. There's still unhappiness among greens over the White House's perceived failure to push hard for carbon cap-and-trade legislation—legislation that was a major campaign promise in 2008—and over the past year or so it seems as if the term "climate change" itself has disappeared from Obama's rhetoric. Former Vice President Al Gore, who endorsed Obama in 2008 over Hillary Clinton, even took to the pages of Rolling Stone to gently criticize the President for failing to act on global warming.

But behind the scenes—and away from Congress—the Obama Administration has managed to make meaningful progress on energy and the environment, from tighter air pollution regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency to innovative ideas on clean tech research from the Department of Energy. read more>>>