With President Obama reportedly digging in his heels on nominating embattled U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as the next secretary of State, environmental activists are scouring her past to get a sense of what she will bring to the table on climate change.
KAMPALA, Uganda -- Farooq Kiryowa's cookstove manufacturing plant lies down a narrow slum road in this city's impoverished Kakungulu neighborhood, where under tin-roofed tenements women and children toil in heat, dust and squalor as Kampala's permanent underclass. Kiryowa is producing between 2,000 and 3,000 improved cookstoves per month with a staff of 29 laborers. He sells the stoves, which require half the charcoal and emit far less smoke than conventional stoves, for between 15,000 and 30,000 shillings ($6 to $12) per unit. That makes him an unqualified business success in a section of Kampala where success -- at least in Western terms -- is almost never achieved.
Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker is well on her way to becoming Commerce secretary, after both Democrats and Republicans voiced support for her nomination at a hearing yesterday. (E&ENews PM, )
Sen. Roy Blunt's meeting with President Obama's nominee to be U.S. EPA administrator on Wednesday did not persuade the Missouri Republican to drop his hold on her nomination. (E&ENews PM, )
Two dozen Senate Republicans yesterday warned President Obama against trying to package approval of Keystone XL with emissions-cutting policies that might assuage the environmental concerns of the pipeline's critics. (E&ENews PM, )
Hurry up and wait. (ClimateWire, )
As California moves forward with a Jan. 1 linkage date to the Quebec carbon market, E&E's OnPoint explores what hurdles still exist as they prepare for the first joint auction. (E&ENews PM, )
Sen. James Inhofe on Wednesday panned as "immoral" the suggestion by some of his Senate colleagues that this week's devastating Oklahoma tornado might be linked to climate change. (Greenwire, )
