While President Barack Obama is weighing in against new trade protectionism in one bill, the trade-skeptic bloc in Congress has decided they want more protectionism in another.

On Sunday, President Obama told Waxman-Markey-bill drafters that he likes the vision of a clean green economic future in their sights, but wants them to lose the tariff approach they're currently favouring to get there.

In a development that reportedly took even President Obama's aides by surprise, the United States' new cap and trade bill has narrowly passed the House of Representatives in Congress. The bill, known as Waxman-Markey, passed by 219 to 212, with 44 Democrats, mostly from coal-producing and industrial manufacturing states in ...

The House is set to vote today on H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, colloquially known as Waxman-Markey.

The preamble to the new regulatory reform bill being introduced by the Obama administration is interesting, summing up as it does the state of the current downturn and summing up how it is that we got here.

I had a conversation earlier today in Montreal with Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. (GE), who was pretty blunt in his assessment of the so-called Buy American provision in President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill.

Siddhartha Lokanandi is a New Yorker who regularly uses credit cards to help him make big-ticket purchases. Last fall, for example, he put several thousand dollars on one card in order to send his mother to India.

Van Jones is a powerhouse. There's no other way to describe him. The one-time community-activist has taken his poverty- and pollution-busting agenda all the way from the nonprofit he founded in Oakland CA to the White House. As of the past four weeks, Jones is the special advisor on green ...

I'm at a conference in the Times Center on 41st street at 8th Avenue in NYC. It's called The 99% Conference. (The title is a riff on the famous Thomas Edison quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.")

Hurray for President Obama insisting on more restructuring in the auto sector. It gives me a little more optimism that the U.S., Canada and other developed economies may eventually produce a sustainable solution to this epic financial and economic crisis.