Environment Advocate Says Less Food For Children Is Leadership Flaw

During a press conference Monday on the 2012 Hunger Report, Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said that last year’s cut to SNAP food assistance programs to raise money for feeding children in schools is symptomatic of poor leadership. (0:28)

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House Republican: Obama Siding With Radical Environmentalists

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) said at a press conference Tuesday that President Obama’s values differ than mainstream Americans in regards to the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline. (0:25)

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Environment Is Center Of Occupy Washington DC Fight, Says Organizer

Kevin Zeese, an organizer of Occupy Washington DC at Freedom Plaza, argued Thursday during a protest at the EPA that corporate greed is harming the environment. (0:16)

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Moran: Too Many Anti-Environmental Riders In Interior Appropriations Bill

Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) says the new Interior and Environment Appropriations bill is “highly anti-environmental” with at least 39 legislative riders that harm the environment in some way. (0:37)

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Poison In The Ground Means Poison In The Economy, Says EPA Administrator

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says economic and environmental problems are tied together in many ways and the Obama administration’s Partnership for Sustainable Committee is targeting. (0:35)

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Obama: Waxman-Markey Bill Represents U.S. Environmental Progress

During a press conference with German Chancellor Andrea Markel, President Barack Obama admitted that the U.S. has had some trouble in the past when it comes to environmental issues, but expressed his belief that the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation represents the progress the U.S. is making (0:28).
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Biden: Green Jobs Are Better. Period.

Vice President Joe Biden says green jobs, jobs that promote clean, renewable energy, pay 10-20% higher wages than traditional jobs. Biden went on to say that green initiatives create jobs in the U.S. and allow more Americans to get to, and remain, in the middle class. (0:41)
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Biden Urges Creation Of 21st Century Transportation System

Vice President Joe Biden says a 21st century transportation system will create new jobs, help the environment, and stem new technologies. (0:19)
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Pelosi: Climate Change Is an Environmental Justice Issue

By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks about how climate can be a "game changer" on the openness of China. The Chinese people want accountability from their government on the quality of air that they breath and the water they drink, Pelosi says. (0:42)
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Pence: Marriage Must Be Protected

U.S. Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) states that marriage must be protected because it is the only safe environment for a child to be raised in and is important to the survival of America. (0:25)
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"It's Both Or Neither."

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, says that alternative energy will not be a drag on the economy, but a driver.
"We don't believe that it's jobs or the environment, we believe that it's both or neither."

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Former Vice-President Al Gore speaks at Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Former Vice-President Al Gore speaks at a Climate Change hearing and says that "we must take bold action now" in order to find solutions for our climate crisis which will lead to solutions for our economic and national security problems as well. We are buying foreign oil and using burning it in ways that destroy our planet. Gore says that "the first step is already before us. I urge this congress to quickly pass the entirety of President Obama's Recovery Package." (1:25)

by Suzia van Swol and Candyce Torres, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service
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Tom Vilsack gets to work as Agriculture Secretary

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Tom Vilsack, Agriculture Secretary, tells Talk Radio News Service in a conference call today what the American people can expect from his team. Vilsack today signed an ethics agreement called for by President Obama to ensure that all departments operate under transparent and collaborative government. Vilsack said: "It is vital that we have these standards in place, that they be rigorous and that they meet the expectations of the citizens and taxpayers of this country."
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Pelosi applauds new "green" visitor center

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the environmentally-friendly initiatives in the new Capitol Visitor Center are in keeping with the Capitol's history. (0:55)
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Solis makes case for energy change

Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) says what it will take to create energy change, and why she believes energy change can be so beneficial. (1:28)
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Transportation better under Bush

President Bush describes some of the ways transportation in the U.S. is "safer, cleaner, and more effective." (1:15)
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Energy technology will be next great global industry

New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman says that the next great global industry will be energy technology and that whoever dominates the field will have the greatest economic, national, and energy security (0:26).
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Director of the UN Environment Programm on Green Initiatives

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, discusses strategies for reducing pollution and environmental waste in relation to the Millennium Development Goals.


"When we talk about the green economy," Steiner said, "it's not necessarily a mathametic definition we're kooking at." He when on to say that in the UN's analysis, UNEP looks at "where are, in our economy, sectors emerging, jobs being created, investments being mobilized ... and essentially restructuring our economy?"


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ANWR could be up and running sooner than expected

Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) says that because geological surveys have already been conducted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), should Congress decide to allow drilling, drilling could begin very quickly with very little environmental impact (:24).
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Globe focusses on Beijing's shortfalls

Elizabeth Economy, who recently co-wrote an article on the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the Foreign Affairs Journal, says that the Games were meant to be China's chance to come out to the world, but has now been transformed due to its serious shortfalls that have drawn criticism from around the world. These shortcomings include environmental concerns, internet access and broadening of human rights (1:06).
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