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Home Front: Politix
The Return of the Vile Van Jones
2010-01-25
Van Jones just keeps popping up everywhere...

Most people best remember Van Jones as the Obama administration Green Jobs Czar who resigned his position after being exposed as having helped to found a communist revolutionary organization.

It was confirmed on World Net Daily just hours ago that the White House is being advised by the University of Colorado-based Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP), an organization headed by a 20-person advisory board which includes none other than Van Jones.

You will remember that just days ago, we posted a story linking Van Jones to the upcoming Copenhagen summit.

William Becker, the executive director of PCAP, has now confirmed that a number of PCAP's recommendations to the President have been influential in helping to shape policy. For example:
  • The PCAP recommended that the U.S. reach a bilateral climate deal with China prior to the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The U.S. has since signed several agreements with China to share technology that reduces greenhouse-gas emissions.

  • The PCAP recommended an executive order that removed the gags from federal climate scientists. This became one of Obama's first actions on environmental policy.

  • The PCAP recommended an overhaul of federal energy management to beef up efficiency requirements for federal agencies and to restore absolute carbon reduction targets that had been rescinded by the Bush administration. The Obama administration issued a new federal energy management order in October, including a requirement that agencies develop absolute targets for greenhouse-gas reductions.

  • The PCAP recommended (as did many others) that the Environmental Protection Agency embrace California's vehicle emission standards and begin the process of regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The EPA is doing both.

  • The PCAP recommended major budget increases for states and communities to engage in energy and climate actions and to weatherize the homes of low-income families. This was part of Obama's stimulus package.

In addition, Becker has stated that PCAP is "about to propose a new and more assertive strategy for President Obama to raise the bar on the U.S. climate goal, with or without Congress."

Becker told WND, "We continue to work with some colleagues inside the (Obama) administration, as well as continuing to push for bold action from the outside."
Posted by: Anonymoose

#2  PCAP is "about to propose a new and more assertive strategy for President Obama to raise the bar on the U.S. climate goal, with or without Congress."

Faster please. If a year of Obama can elect a Republican to Ted Kennedy's Senate seat this just might be the straw that finally breaks the EPA's back and causes the agency tobe dismantled.

Posted by: AzCat   2010-01-25 15:28  

#1  Freddy Krueger of the administration?
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-01-25 12:19  

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