President Obama's Energy & Environment Agenda

The energy challenges our country faces are severe and have gone unaddressed for far too long. Our addiction to foreign oil doesn't just undermine our national security and wreak havoc on our environment -- it cripples our economy and strains the budgets of working families all across America -- President Barrack Obama, January 20, 2009

Quotes from Obama's Inauguration Speech re. Energy & Climate Change

"... each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

"... We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.

"... We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

"... With old friends and former foes, we'll work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat and roll back the specter of a warming planet.

"... And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect."

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Evening Program

8:30 p.m.
AN AMERICAN TRADITION

Douglas A. Durante, Ball Co-Chair, Clean Fuels Foundation

Jan Hartke, Ball Co-Chair, Clinton Climate Initiative

Presentation of the Young Marines: Bill Holmberg, Biomass Coordinating Council

Singing of the National Anthem

Getting Neutral: Carbon Offset Certification for the Ball

Entertainment by The Main Event

9:30 p.m.:
WORKING TOGETHER TO BUILD A BETTER TOMORROW

A Toast to our Sponsors:
Burl Haigwood, Clean Fuels Development Coalition

A Salute to the Host Committee:
Scott Sklar, Stella Group, Ltd.
Carol Werner, Environmental and Energy Study Institute
John C. Topping, Jr., Climate Institute

9:30 p.m. to midnight
GREETINGS FROM THE NEW ADMINISTRATION, HONORED GUESTS
AND SPECIAL GUESTS

Brief remarks by our guests will be occurring throughout the evening. We would appreciate your cooperation when guests are speaking.

Please be sure to have your commemorative picture taken and your environmental and clean energy message recorded in our YouTube booth in the venue behind the main stage.

Honored Guests

Dr. Steven Chu, Energy Secretary-Designate
Lisa Jackson, Administrator-Designate, Environmental Protection Agency
Nancy Sutley, Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Margo Oge, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Environmental Protection Agency

Special Guests

Glenn Close, Actress
Daryl Hannah, Actress
Bob King, Actor, Revolution Green
Kelly King, Actress, Revolution Green
Al Cecere, American Eagle Foundation, with the American Eagles Challenger and Mr. Lincoln

Representatives from the National Park Service, Department of Interior, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, and U.S. Congress, 5 embassies, and over 300 leading environmental and clean energy organizations.