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Ken Salazar leaves contested legacy as Obama's interior secretary
2013-01-16 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama's top adviser on oil drilling and the management of America's last wide open spaces announced on Wednesday that he would leave the cabinet by March. The departure of Ken Salazar as interior secretary leaves Obama with virtually a clean slate to remake his energy and environmental team. The only other original member of Obama's original green "dream team", the Nobel prize-winning energy secretary Steven Chu, is also expected to step down at the start of Obama's second term. As interior...
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Will a new US secretary of state finally close a climate change deal?
2013-01-15 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Time and again, business leaders hoping for political clarity and international co-operation on climate change have been frustrated by the UN Climate Change negotiating framework evident in Copenhagen, Johannesburg and Doha. There are few policies that can survive the journey to consensus in a setting with 192 national representatives, and there are no diplomats with the required skills and passion to find solutions palatable to a critical mass of colleagues. But often, it is American diplomacy...
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02.20: Secretary Madeleine Albright
2013-01-15 00:37:56| Powells Books Events Calendar
Before Madeleine Albright turned 12, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the near-total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on her memory, her parents' written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly available documents, Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring. In Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 (Harper Perennial), Albright reflects on her discovery of her family's Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homeland's tangled history, and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their generation. At once a deeply personal memoir and an incisive work of history, Prague Winter serves as a guide to the future through the lessons of the past. Secretary Albright will be joined in conversation by Maria Wulff, president of the World Affairs Council of Oregon. This event is cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon. Please note: Tickets for this special event, $15.99, include admission and a copy of Prague Winter, and are available at the box offices of the Bagdad Theater and Crystal Ballroom, online at eTix.com, or by phone at 855-227-8499. Books will be distributed at the event.
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to Step Down
2013-01-10 21:17:29| ENR.com: Headline News
Hilda Solis known for her tough enforcement approach.
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Could Chuck Hagel, likely defense secretary nominee, turn out to be a climate hawk?
2013-01-07 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: On the one hand, Hagel - a Republican senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2008 and now co-chair of the President`s Intelligence Advisory Board - has professed many views you might associate with a climate denier. In fact, his name is tied to the Senate`s first high-profile repudiation of climate action: In 1997, he cosponsored the Byrd-Hagel resolution calling for rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, arguing that it would hurt the U.S. economy and should have required emissions cuts from developing...
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