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great minds think alike

Despite its many flaws, EIA analysis of climate bill agrees with every other credible ACES study 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Let's set aside for the moment the fact that the Energy Information Administration (EIA) doesn't fully model the House climate and clean energy bill. The EIA analysis still finds that the average cost to households from 2012 to 2030 (discounted) is $83!
A view askew

Pay no attention to footnote #5 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Two industry groups, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), are getting ready to release an "independent" study today on the American Clean Energy and Security Act. But if this study is anything like the last one NAM/ACCF released, it'll come with a major footnote.
Dirty Political Tricks Lead Back to Clean Coal Coalition

ACCCE Hired Firm That Forged Opposition Letters 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Gloves off

Seven ways to fight dirty (energy) 4
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
If we are going to pass effective legislation this year, it's time we step up the effort and fight the dirty industries that pollute our communities and jeopardize our children and grandchildren's future. Here are seven ways to do it.
not your grandfather's climate bill

The Climate Bill Shouldn’t Give Coal a Free Pass 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Now that historic U.S. climate legislation – the American Clean Energy and Security Act – (ACES), has passed the House of Representatives and the Senate is debating its version of energy/climate legislation, let’s talk about what must be fixed before it gets to the President’s desk.
More climate strategy innovation from outside the envelope

MoveOn’s Masterful Move 5
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Most every major advance in civic climate action has originated outside the envelope of U.S. climate politics as practiced by major environmental organizations and funders.
the sun'll come out tomorrow

The three things Cass Sunstein should do on his first day 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
After some minor drama, it looks like Cass Sunstein is finally on the road to confirmation for director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) after being nominated by President Obama in January.
34 Nobel winners write Obama about lack of support for energy R&D in climate/energy bill 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Concerned about the lack of stable and specific funding for energy research and development in the ACES bill, 34 Nobel Prize laureates have written to President Obama asking him to urge Congress to send him a bill that commits to the $15 billion for R&D that the president originally proposed.
Taxicab Confessions

How should you talk to your cab driver about cap-and-trade? 59
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
What do you say to a cranky cab driver bemoaning the cap-and-trade bill?
ALTERNATE REALITY

Senate GOP: Nuke, baby, nuke! 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Republicans in the Senate claim to have an “alternative" to the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act. (OK, so it was just Sen. Lamar Alexander, but we’ll accept his claim that he has some so-far-anonymous colleagues behind him). But on closer inspection, chances that their plans would affect clean energy or energy security seem dim.
Fox News Fertilizes a Grass-Sod Movement

Lunatic fringe watch: wing nuts unleashed on ACES climate bill 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
If you feel the ground shaking under your feet that is because the United States is about to be swallowed up into the bowels of Hell as the U.S. Senate takes up climate legislation. Or so Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin would have you believe.
ACES and eights: dead planet's hand

American Clean Energy Security Act strengthens U.S. ability to sabotage international climate talks 1
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy Security Act (ACES) won't cut emissions. It won't serve as a platform we can improve later anymore than the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) served as a foot in the door to improve our democracy when it promoted voter purges and Diebold electronic voting machines. But one last argument is left to supporters: we need to support ACES in order to improve America's negotiating position in Copenhagen.
ACES is not playing with a full deck.

American Climate Energy Security bill still makes things worse. 1
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
A walk through the week's climate news

The Climate Post: Has the political climate changed? 7
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
First things first: The U.S. House of Representatives last week narrowly voted to overhaul the nation's energy economy by limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions, boosting efficiency, and developing renewable electricity sources. The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act would limit, or "cap," annual pollution and allow industry to buy and sell, or "trade," credits in a new and tightly regulated commodity market. The vote, 219-212, sends an equivocal message to the Senate, where advocates face an even tougher sell. Eight Republicans voted with the majority and 44 Democrats broke with their party leaders.
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.
ACES wild!

House Dems release 1,201-page climate bill with floor debate scheduled for Friday 0
Posted 5 months ago
Next on climate: Improve Waxman-Markey innovation provisions in Senate 0
Posted 5 months ago
Few aspects of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill matter more than the insufficient degree to which it applies future revenue to clean energy innovation. Quite simply, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) makes only a modest start toward promoting the technology breakthroughs that will make clean energy cheap, reduce carbon emissions, and create thousands of cleantech jobs.
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.
The Negotiators

The Non-Concession concession? 1
Posted 5 months ago
Henry Waxman and Ed Markey seem to have mastered the art of the non-concession concession: striking deals with potential opponents in ways that meet their needs while minimizing (though not entirely eliminating) the negative impacts.
Newest entry in the great "Climate Calumny Challenge" boasts bold colors

Phony coal map distorts clean energy bill costs 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
You have to hand it to the coal industry. They are not content to just spend millions of dollars on "wild and crazy" advertising claims about "clean coal." Now, they are bringing those same mad skills of deception to mapmaking. Yes, you read that right: We are now looking at lying via cartography.