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SquareState.net - Front Page (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The most important panel I attended today at the Big Tent at the DNC revolved around the next energy policy of our future president. Talk about celebrity power: T. Boone Pickens was part of the panel and attendance in the Tent was the highest I've seen it all week. It was moderated by John Podesta, a former Clinton Chief of Staff. The third person on stage was Carl Pope, Executive Director...
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Washington Wire (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Brody Mullins reports from Denver on the Democratic convention. Barack Obama has waged war against Washington lobbyists. Now one big-time Democratic lobbyist is fighting back in Denver. Heather Podesta, a politically plugged-in lobbyist who represents a range of corporate giants, is sporting a patch with a scarlet letter L on her [...]
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UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Center for American Progress President John Podesta and UN Foundation President Timothy Wirth write a joint op-ed in the Denver Post today on the promise and challenge of remaking the energy economy through smart public policy. The technologies we need...
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
All Things Considered had a small bit on former Clinton chief of staff's new book, entitled The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate and Our Country. Extremely interesting audio clip and write up at the NPR link above. Below is a small excerpt of the book. This nation has been led off course by leaders who have proven unable to understand or...
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Time (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
NY Times: John Podesta is leading the transition effort for Obama, and William Timmons for McCain. OMB official: “The amount of work being done before the election, formal and informal, is the most ever.”
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The Politicker (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Both presidential campaigns are preparing for the transition period between the election and inauguration : former Bill Clinton chief of staff and head of the Center for American Progress John Podesta is Obama's man, while lobbyist William Timmons, " whose clients have included the American Petroleum Institute and the mortgage company Freddie Mac," is leading McCain's effort. Chris Dodd...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
... for All -- Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute -- John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM Location: Empire East and Empire West, Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers The Rockefeller Foundation was established by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., in 1913. With assets of more than $4 billion, the...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
... All
-- Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, The
Energy and Resources Institute
-- John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American
Progress
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Empire East and Empire West,
Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
The Rockefeller Foundation was established by John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
in 1913. With assets of more than $4 billion,...
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Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
... Green for All Rajendra Kumar Pachauri , Director-General, TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute John Podesta , President and CEO, Center for American Progress Judith Rodin , President, The Rockefeller Foundation Here’s the description: This panel will explore strategies for fighting global warming while lifting poor communities from poverty, examining the role of technology cooperation,...
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Mark Maynard (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank run by John Podesta, today released something they’re calling the Green Recovery plan. The plan, drafted in cooperation with the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), suggests that an investment of $100 billion over two years would create 2 million new jobs in a clean energy economy, with a significant...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Democrats said that John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, was leading the transition preparations for Obama. Podesta, who founded a lobbying firm with his brother in 1988, is president of the Center for American Progress, a sort of government-in-exile waiting for Democrats to regain power. At the McCain campaign, Republicans said, transition work is being...
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
... hero who vigorously advocated the prompt reduction of global warming pollution,” said John Podesta, President and CEO of Center for American Progress. “His was a prominent voice for action, particularly in the international arena. He will be sorely missed.” And others can be found in Grist : (more…)
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Yesterday at the Center for American Progress, John Podesta spoke with SEIU President Andy Stern about his new book on The Power of Progress . I got the chance to ask them both about health care and the energy crisis. In his book, Podesta spends a lot of time on the latter, writing that “climate change, in my view, is the most demanding problem confronting America today.” I wondered...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
... The Constitution Subcommittee will hear testimony from legal and historical experts, including John Podesta, President Clinton's former Chief of Staff, on what steps must be taken starting in January to reestablishing appropriate checks and balances in areas including warrantless wiretapping, interrogation standards, detention policy, abuse of executive privilege, excessive government...
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Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Yesterday we introduced you to Bill Becker and heard all about PCAP’s policy suggestions. Today we focus on some of the nuts and bolts of weaning the United States off of carbon, specifically cap-and-trade, cap-and-auction, and carbon taxes. S&R : John Podesta said today [at the Energy and Climate Change roundtable] that the process of decarbonizing, of getting ourselves off of fossil...
