regulation Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:46:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Obama Addresses Climate Change as “An American Issue” https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-addresses-climate-change-as-an-american-issue-20130620/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-addresses-climate-change-as-an-american-issue-20130620/#comments Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:46:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38548 “Haters gonna hate” no matter what they hate, including the Obama administration’s initiatives on climate change. The Obama White House approach to climate change has been attacked as a Republican vs Democrat debate, pretty much going nowhere in the process. Obama was able to pass some landmark legislation reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the light […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-addresses-climate-change-as-an-american-issue-20130620/feed/ 2 38548 Obama to Congress on Climate Control: “Act Now or I Will” https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-climate-control-speech-congress-20130213/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-climate-control-speech-congress-20130213/#respond Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:21:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=33148 Now that Barack Obama has been elected to his second-term as President of the United States, he doesn’t have to play quite so nicely with the other branches to make changes to policies relating to climate control. Granted, his health care bill hasn’t been particularly popular, but he did manage to get the Environmental Protection […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-climate-control-speech-congress-20130213/feed/ 0 33148 Mitigating Climate Change – Regulation or Taxation? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mitigating-climate-change-regulation-or-taxation-20130208/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mitigating-climate-change-regulation-or-taxation-20130208/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:51:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32909 As Americans are becoming more informed on the causes of climate change, they are also getting a better idea on what needs to be done about it and what part they have to play. They are also forming some pretty strong opinions on what the government ought to be doing in order to encourage, or […]

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