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In June, lithium-ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. unveiled plans for a new manufacturing plant in Auburn that it said would employ 600 workers — a big gain in the state’s drive for green jobs. Five months later, the Westboro-based company has scrapped...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan, green jobs, manufacturing jobs, Boston, Green job, Lithium, Mascoma Corporation, Jennifer Granholm, Recyclable materials, A123Systems, Lithium-ion battery, Business Finance
For as much time as the critics spend scrutinizing and bashing Sarah Palin on everything from being too Conservative, Pro-Life, Pro Gun Rights, a hockey mom, too attractive to be smart, the worn out “I can see Russia from my front Porch” comment,...
Tags: Sarah Palin, Energy Policy, Ken Salazar, Steven Chu, Carol Browner, Biofuels, Natural gas, ANWR, Electric Cars, Green Jobs
He is a minor player, he has no power, no budget, why take him? It's because he looks like Obama and he has all those same attributes of being well-educated and he's an electrifying speaker with an elite education," said John Anner, a good friend of Jones...
Tags: Barack Obama, Van Jones, Middle Tennessee House, human rights, vicious smear, president obama, ella baker, baker center, green jobs, White House
News reports today mention the resignation of Anthony "Van" Jones - activist turned special adviser to President Obama on Green Jobs. What forced him to resign? Well in true "watch what you say or do" fashion, word has come about...
Tags: green jobs, President Obama, special adviser to Obama, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, Van Jones
President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones says right-wing extremists forced him out of the White House with a smear campaign and some of his supporters are playing the blame game as well. President Benjamin Todd Jealous said. At the center of the...
Tags: Van Jones, Barack Obama, green jobs, White House, Mr. Jones, president obama, jobs czar
Van Jones , the onetime Marxist whose controversial statements about Republicans and 9/11 have made him a distracting lightning rod as Barack Obama's environmental jobs czar in recent days, resigned tonight. Now, the Sunday morning political talk shows...
Tags: Van Jones Van Jones, Barack Obama, green jobs, jones resigns, Obama Political Achilles Heel, Bush, jobs czar, bush administration, president barack, house environmental
President Obama 's 'green jobs czar' Van Jones has been targeted again and again by conservatives for his controversial views and now they'll have another item to use as fodder," Amanda Carpenter writes in "The Back Story" blog at www.washington times.com....
Tags: green jobs, Obama, jobs czar
The story of how the President's Special Advisor for Green Jobs became the biggest, scariest villain of the right wing (this week, anyway) is also the story of how the right wing information delivery process works now. Here's the biography of Van Jones...
Tags: Van Jones, Green Jobs, Radicalization of Obama, Barack Hussein Obama
Aug. 6, 2009 Allvoices contributor kimberlydvorak published a story today about Republican California gubernatorial hopeful Meg WhitmanMeg WhitmanMeg WhitmanMeg Whitman, who met with voters recently in San Diego. According to the aforementioned report,...
Tags: Meg Whitman, governor, gubernatorial race, California 2010 governors race, Republican hopefuls, San Diego, Whitman meets voters, AB32, AB390, Ammiano, marijuana, cannabis, hemp, ecology, green jobs, economy, The Punditty Project
Paul Chesser of American Spectator has the transcript here , including a link to video from YouTube, courtesy of Colorado's own Michelle Malkin. Watch the video and notice the squirmy nervousness in Ritter's face, voice, and body language as he tries...
Tags: Bill Ritter, Congress, Senate, green jobs, Washington, health care, Chris Gregoire, Colorado