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A look at Obama’s first year in office …by the numbers


Robert Yoon
CNN Political Research Director        

President Obama was inaugurated one year ago today.

Here’s a recap on his first year, by the numbers:

124 bills signed into law

39 executive orders issued

3 nationally televised prime-time presidential addresses

4 prime-time press conferences

5 press conferences from the White House

20 countries visited
(Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Trinidad, Turkey, United Kingdom)

28 states visited
(Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)

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Washington State … Repower America:: tell your Senator:: Don’t mess with the Clean Air Act


As early as tomorrow, your Senators could vote to block the Clean Air Act’s protections against carbon pollution, carving out a loophole that hands the biggest polluters a clear path to spew dangerous emissions into our air and water.

And, unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that this so-called “Dirty Air Act” was literally written by fossil fuel industry lobbyists.1

We have less than 24 hours before the vote could happen — please help flood your Senators with urgent calls demanding that they vote “NO” on this attack on the Clean Air Act.

Senator Cantwell: (202) 224-3441
Senator Murray: (202) 224-2621

Let them know you’re a constituent and say:

“I urge Senator _____ to oppose any efforts to weaken the Clean Air Act’s ability to limit dangerous carbon pollution. Instead of taking our country a step backwards, I hope you will work to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year.”

Please report your call.

This vote pits the profits of a few companies against the health and welfare of the American public.

The same lobbyist who was invited to help draft the amendment — former Bush administration official Jeffrey Holmstead — represents some of the worst of the worst, including the top three coal-fired sources of global warming pollution in the entire country. What’s more, his clients donated over $50,000 in campaign contributions to the Senator who introduced the proposal.2

This kind of pay-to-play politics must be rejected, and forcefully. Call today and tell your Senators: Don’t mess with the Clean Air Act.

Thanks,

Dave Boundy

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Dems United in Solidarity for Barack Obama ….sign your name


Tell President Obama we support him … we will still push for change we all voted for and believe in …

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Clean Energy initiative … introduced 1/8/2010 by President Obama


As we move into 2010 the percentage of jobs lost has not subsided and the stimulus package has not produced as many jobs as the Obama Administration had hoped,  the percentage, still in the double digits, 10%.  This slow turn around has the Obama Administration taking steps to increase job creation of 17thousand if not more jobs by injecting money and giving tax credits to green businesses. Tax credits were awarded to 183 projects in 43 states, which, hopefully will boost the economy.

As the President introduced the Clean Energy initiative, he promised that these green jobs will not be outsourced, he also reminded the nation that America started out being the number one in Energy Innovation and manufacturing. These jobs and others primarily held by Americans  have since been sent overseas, in my opinion because material and labor was and still is very cheap.

Today,  China is one if not the biggest manufacturer of solar panels, wind and other clean energy technology products; it’s obvious America needs to improve upon our status and production of green jobs, green products and innovation.

The Clean Energy initiative is a package of 2.3billion dollars to forge a future for Americans by starting  to manufacture solar, wind  and hopefully infrastructure projects, these projects must be in service by 2014, but approximately 30 percent of them will be completed by 2010, the administration estimated.  The money used will be coming from the stimulus package as well as an additional 5billion of private capital provided to the manufacturing sector to create thousands of additional jobs.

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EPA Strengthens Smog Standards


EPA Strengthens Smog Standard/Proposed standards, strictest to date, will protect the health of all Americans, especially children

Release date: 01/07/2010

Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn milbourn.cathy@epa.gov 202-564-7849 202-564-4355

Complete article at yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf or  http://www.epa.gov

The United States Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog. Smog, also known as ground-level ozone, is linked to a number of serious health problems, ranging from aggravation of asthma to increased risk of premature death in people with heart or lung disease. Ozone can even harm healthy people who work and play outdoors. The agency is proposing to replace the standards set by the previous administration, which many believe were not protective enough of human health.