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Presidential transition of Barack Obama

President Obama’s green report card

Environment

Nancy Sutle, President Obama’s top environmental advisor on the administration’s major acts on clean energy, climate change and environment.

The U.S. economy and the global economy

Business, Economics and Jobs

Obama’s climate change pledge

Environment

President-elect Barack Obama

Global Politics

White House transfer of power

Global Politics

Obama’s rock star science team

Environment

Meet the star-studded science team recruited to lead major departments during Obama’s presidency.

Obama Lists Climate Change Among His Top Priorities for Second Term

As President Obama moves into his second term, his policy priorities, and the policies themselves, will likely shift. Yesterday we learned that the Obama administration is considering the “zero option” when the United States withdraws from Afghanistan in 2014, leaving no American troops behind in the country.  Elisabeth Bumiller, Pentagon correspondent for Takeaway partner The New […]

President Obama Speaks Out on Climate Action

At his first press conference since reelection, President Obama calls for climate action, but not at the expense of jobs.

Advice for Obama as He Transitions to His Second Term

President Obama won reelection on Tuesday night, granting him another four years in the White House. As he transitions from his first term to his second, the president will likely make some personnel changes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, repeatedly, that she will retire from her post at the end of 2012, and […]

The World

The Center at the Center of it All

A look inside the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank that could be shaping the Obama administration’s thinking on energy and climate change.