Green Jobs Kill Jobs Says Dick Armey

For every green job created, two jobs will be destroyed says former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX). Armey adds that "what global warming public policy is really all about is the artificial creation of increased scarcity of what is probably the most high linkage resource in America and the world." (0:27)
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Waxman-Markey Bill Will Have Negative Consequences, Warns U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Official

Bill Kovacs, Senior Vice President of the Environment, Technology, and Regulatory Division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, warns that the Waxman-Markey bill will promote regulatory chaos, foster lawsuits, harm the economy, and ultimately do nothing to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere. (0:16)
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Mine Jobs Could Be Created Without Harming Environment, Alaska Conservationists Say

Jay Cadmus of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council says his organization worked extensively with Coeur Alaska to find a waste disposal system that would have provided jobs and while not harming the environment, but Coeur ultimately backed a system that will destroy a lake. The Supreme Court today allowed Coeur to proceed with its mining operations.

"Those jobs at the Kensington mine could be provided without having to use a lake as a tailings storage facility," Cadmus said. "In my mind it's not a question of jobs; it's a question of how one cares for the environment. And we feel that if someone's going to use a public resource like our clean water, they need to be held to a very high standard." (0:59)
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Council on Economic Advisers:Help the people being hurt

By Courtney Ann Jackson- Talk Radio News Service

The Recovery Act is working to help the people being hurt and to minimize the harm to the unemployed.(0:45)
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Council on Economic Advisers:No change in purpose of Recovery Act

By Courtney Ann Jackson- Talk Radio News Service

Nothing has changed about the Council on Economic Advisers' estimate in measuring the creation and saving of jobs. Their purpose remains the same. (0:28)
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150,000 Jobs In Obama's First 100 Days

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a House Joint Economic Committee hearing today on the current economic outlook, Dr. Christina Romer, Chair of Council for Economic Advisors said, “during the first one hundred days if the Obama administration...the Recovery Act has already already saved or created about 150,000 jobs.” Adding “that most of the benefits of the Recovery Act are yet to come... our estimates remain that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending will create or save 3.5 million jobs before the end of next year.”

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Green = Jobs

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, makes the case that clean energy creates many new jobs.

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A Massive Recall To Work Program

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance,
says that not only will clean energy initiatives drive jobs, but they are traditional jobs that do not require retraining.

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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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Apocalypse Now

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, in reference to the Republicans' vision of the Obama plan, says we're basically living a Republican apocalypse now, it's time to try another approach.

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Republicans For Cap-and-Trade

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, points out that separate Cap-and-Trade bills have previously been sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) Former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), who still support it, and that Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both (R-Maine), also support the measure.


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"Through Efficiency, We Can Pay"

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance,
"Through efficiency, we can pay for an awful lot of these global warming reductions."

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Back To Starved Or Forward To Sustainable

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, says we can go backward to a resourced-starved energy economy, or forward to a sustainable one.

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Clean Energy Off-The-Shelf

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Dave Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, says we are closer to replacing fossil fuels than coal manufacturers say.

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Pelosi: Recovery package is fiscally sound

Following a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee listening session on the economy, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that "it is very clear that as we implement our recovery package, we must make sure that it works. And again, confidence is a big part of that investment that we have made. And we also must make sure the public understands this is a very fiscally sound package. The choices that were made in it were to create jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs and jobs as soon as possible and jobs over a period of time to stabilize the economy.” Pelosi emphasized that the baseline for spending has not been raised, but rather the stimulus is targeted in a time frame to make the difference. (1:01)
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Inaugural Radio Row: President of the Machinists Union Tom Buffenbarger

International Affairs Correspondent Blanquita Cullum talks to Tom Buffenbarger, President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, about Obama, employment in America and the current economical situation. (7:17)
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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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Billions of US dollars given to 'dictators and thugs'

Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) says it is outrageous that the US sends $700 billion overseas to "dictators and thugs" for oil, when that money could be spent on American oil and creating more domestic jobs (:19).
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Average of 94,000 jobs per month gone according to Bernanke

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke says that while our economy continues to slowly grow, private payroll employment declined this year falling at an average pace of 94,000 jobs per month through June. He also says the construction sector has been particularly hard hit. (:26)
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"This country's economy is sick!"

At a press conference on making the American dream more affordable, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), says that the Republican minority won't allow them "to make progress." He says that the situation is like the Republicans pushing hard on the brakes of a tandem bicycle while the Democrats are trying to pedal forward. But, he adds that the Democrats will continue to "push." (1:00)
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