October 13th, 2011 | by Jeremy Bloom
All of these gains are being put in peril by the energetic efforts of the Canadian tar sands lobby in the United States. According to the Council, uncertainty in tax policy, pollution restrictions and performance standards are putting future clean energy jobs at risk. Tar sands interests in Alberta and Canada are actively promoting this uncertainty in Washington DC, state governments and municipalities. The tar sands industry sees the emerging U.S. clean energy industry as a threat to its biggest market and is doing everything in its power to undermine it
October 8th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Noted author and New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman tore into Obama at this year's Greenbuild Conference in Toronto for some of his environmental and clean energy failures. He's not the first to do so -- Al Gore has, Rolling Stone has, Joe Romm of the blog Climate Progress has, Bill McKibben of 350.org has, and numerous environmental organizations have.
I don't think any of them would say that Obama hasn't done more than any Republican president at this time would do. But they have all expressed their great frustration at Obama's lack of leadership and a number of big, sort of shocking failures (i.e. opening up Wyoming to massive coal mining, dropping strong smog standards, opening the Arctic up to oil drilling)
