by Bill Scher
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No More Communiques
Obama headed to Copenhagen, sets the bar for success 27
Posted 2 days ago President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent (from 2005) by 2020. Read More -
The Odd Couple
Sen. Lindsey Graham crosses the climate rubicon 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Last week, I struck a hopeful note after GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed interest in a climate bill compromise that included a carbon cap in exchange for support for some nuclear power and coastal drilling. But my expectations it would really happen remained low. Read More -
THE NUCLEAR OPTION
Are there GOP senators who will back the climate bill? 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago In July I speculated that Sen. Lamar Alexander might lead some Republicans to back a climate protection bill if Democratic leaders made some concessions regarding nuclear power. Since then, Alexander has imploded and Sen. Lindsey Graham has emerged as the GOP's climate dealmaker. Read More -
Will there be a third chance for a better acronym?
Kerry-Boxer: A second chance for progressives 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The new Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act gives progressives a second chance to influence climate legislation, if we learn the right lessons from both the legislative process for the House climate bill and the ongoing health care debate. Read More -
Cherry Picking Season Is Over
Conservatives ditch CBO data when convenient to attack climate bill 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago Conservatives who loved citing the Congressional Budget Office when it was being hard on health care legislation keep on ignoring it when it comes to climate legislation. Read More -
I Got Yer Jobs Right Here
Neutralizing Big Oil’s climate-bill attack, with investment in manufacturing 2
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago Creating a green jobs economy is our best chance to revitalize America's manufacturing base, and we'll likely lose political support to address the climate crisis if we don't also seize this economic opportunity. Read More -
Compromises, what compromises?
The new Senate global warming deniers 2
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago In the aftermath of the House vote, right-leaning Senate Dems and right-wing Republicans acted as if Reps. Henry Waxman and Ed Markey hadn't spent the last three months painstakingly piecing a compromise with Dems sympathetic to coal companies, power companies, and agribusiness. These Senators are the new global warming deniers: Not denying the climate crisis is happening, but denying the climate bill compromises that just happened. Read More -
No Rest For The Lazy
After Precarious Climate Vote, Grassroots Pressure Needed More Than Ever 0
Posted 5 months ago With right-leaning Dems holding the upper-hand right now, it will take a monster grassroots push to counter corporate interest pressure and allow us to strengthen the Waxman-Markey bill. Read More -
Who you gonna call?
Wanna strengthen the climate bill? Get this one passed. 26
Posted 5 months ago As Mother Jones recently chronicled, the environment community is fractured on the House clean energy and climate protection bill, though the bigger pieces -- Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federation, League of Conservation Voters -- are squarely for it. But do we need a stronger bill with fewer concessions to carbon-polluting industries? Read More -
Dems da breaks
Obama’s carbon-cap plan tests Democratic coalition 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago Democratic gains in the Plains, the interior West, the Rust Belt and the Old Confederacy have transformed the political landscape. But one primary goal of the Obama administration is straining the geographic diversity of the new Democratic coalition: capping carbon pollution to avert a climate crisis. Read More
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