As the White House continues to promote energy efficiency as a key component to solving the energy crisis, politicians and business leaders consider commercial buildings prime candidates for efficiency savings. Clean Skies News’ Susan McGinnis takes a look at “green” building and tours a building that’s won top-level recognition for energy efficiency.

Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, tells Clean Skies News that government policies and the use of new technologies are actively changing the big picture in the energy sector, but they need to be accelerated.

Joe Romm, Senior Fellow for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, discusses his new book, “Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo, Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions.”

On the program: – UN chief Ban Ki-moon sets up a high-level advisory panel to jump start financing for developing nations to battle climate change. – President Obama releases his Economic Report… Inside: a plan for a clean energy future. – State energy regulators will soon tell the feds what they want from Washington.  The [...]

President Calderon talks about the next COP16 in Mexico 2010

Clean Skies Sunday reports on the new reality for Senate Democrats. With only 59 Democratic votes, Tyler Suiters breaks down the future of energy legislation, a bill regulating the controversial act of hydro-fracking, and a push to nullify the EPA endangerment finding on greenhouse gases. Energy analyst Kevin Book discusses the possible merger between Exxon-Mobil and XTO. It’s been one month since the end of the Copenhagen talks, and Ned Helme, President of the Center for Clean Air Policy discusses what’s been done since then.And it’s an electrifying ride at the North American International Auto Show – we’ll show you the newest, greenest cars about to hit the road.

Margaret Ryan reports on White House Climate Change Advisor, Carol Browner, who assessed the Obama Administration’s progress on clean energy. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will hold a meeting tomorrow on the Cape Wind project. The Sierra Club and others are suing Massey Energy claiming it has violated 12,000 pollution laws. And Lee Patrick Sullivan is at the Detroit Auto Show where the vehicles are the greenest ever.

Secretary of State Clinton tries to break the impasse at the Copenhagen climate summit by offering $100 billion a year for a decade to developing nations. Jeffrey Ball reports on how the offer was received in Copenhagen.

Some 15,000 delegates from 192 nations gather in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations on an agreement that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol and set new global carbon emission targets. At the heart of the deal must be a settlement between the wealthy countries and the developing world. Video courtesy of Reuters.

Chevron CEO, Dave O’Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director, Carl Pope debate America’s Energy Future. (Part three of three)

Chevron CEO, Dave O’Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director, Carl Pope debate America’s Energy Future. (Part two of three)

Chevron CEO, Dave O’Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director, Carl Pope debate America’s Energy Future. (Part one of three)

On the eve of the inauguration, attendees of the Green Inaugural Ball and the Arkansas Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C. — including former President Bill Clinton — share their hopes for Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office.

At the ECO:nomics summit, former Vice President Al Gore discusses his 10-year plan to end utilities’ use of carbon-based fuels.

A training program in East Los Angeles is teaching ex-cons to install solar panels so they can improve their skill set and market themselves for the new green economy. WSJ’s Russ Britt reports.

At the ECO:nomics conference, Deutsche Bank’s Caio Koch-Weser talks with WSJ’s Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray about how green initiatives might get financed in this economy.

Van Jones from the White House Council of Environmental Quality visits a local work site that gives us a glimpse of the clean energy economy that’s on the way. Green roofing is just one of the countless green job opportunities that will emerge from President Obama’s comprehensive energy policy.

United Nations, New York, 14 May 2009: The United Nations is leading a powerful new campaign to encourage governments to seal the deal on a fair, balanced and effective agreement on climate change