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No More Communiques

Obama headed to Copenhagen, sets the bar for success 36
Posted 3 days, 7 hours 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.
The senator formerly known as maverick

John McCain’s troubles are the world’s troubles 8
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago The U.S. Senate can't do much without senators like John McCain. The United States can't do much without the Senate. The world can't do much with out the U.S. The world needs a mavericky McCain.
Nobody knows nothin'

Reflecting on the lameness of my profession 11
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago For the past few weeks there has been a flood of news about the Copenhagen climate talks and the clean energy bill in the U.S. Senate. Standing in that flood it's easy to get caught up in the atmospherics of frantic action and constant crisis. But step out for a while and it becomes clear just how much of the "news" consists of people who don't really know anything guessing: what things mean, who's thinking what, what the future holds.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

George Voinovich (R-Ohio) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Sen. George Voinovich, the sole Republican senator to show for a Senate EPW hearing in early November, demands further EPA analysis before voting on a climate bill.
Know thine enemy

Is Bill McKibben right to be angry with Obama? 37
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago In his latest column, Bill McKibben lays into Obama for insufficient leadership on climate change. But the many sins ascribed to Obama almost all trace back to a different source. Properly identifying the barriers to change is the first step in effective political action.
how will senators vote on a climate bill?

Al Franken (D-Minn.) 3
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago Sen. Al Franken told a Grist reader he supports “comprehensive energy legislation,” but he's worried about losing manufacturing jobs.
how will senators vote on a climate bill?

Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) 1
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Dick Durbin signals strong support for the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
Extending the runway

Delaying an international climate treaty: not as bad as it looks 28
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago The big news this weekend was that a coalition of world leaders made it official: there will be no full-fledged, legally binding agreement out of the Copenhagen climate talks. Instead there will be what's being called a politically binding agreement, pledging to work out a full agreement in 2010 -- "one agreement, two steps." This was Denmark PM (and Copenhagen host) Lars Lokke Rasmussen's way of salvaging a half-win from what was threatening to be a total loss. Of course opponents of climate action are portraying it as a disaster that augers the death of UNFCCC process; they do that with every setback or delay. Climate activists don't seem to have decided quite yet what to think about it. My take: it's not as bad as it looks.
Fourteen Democratic senators stick up for coal 6
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago Thursday, 14 Democratic senators affirmed their allegiance to the profits of polluting industry at the expense of the health and jobs of their constituents. In a letter to Senate leaders, a bloc of senators with powerful coal interests in their states called for "fair emissions allowances in climate change legislation." Their definition of "fair," unfortunately, turns out to be full taxpayer subsidies for global warming polluters.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) [UPDATED] 5
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago “I don’t see any climate bill on the table right now that I can support," Sen. Richard Lugar said on Nov. 10, dashing any hopes that he might get behind some version of the Kerry-Boxer legislation that's moving through the Senate. "We really have to start from scratch again."
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Mark Warner (D-Va.) 0
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago Sen. Mark Warner recognizes the need to take action on climate change, but wants to ensure that legislation will not negatively impact the economy. He seems a safe bet to support the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) 1
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago Sen. Roger Wicker plans to oppose the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. In a letter to a constituent, he writes, "I am opposed to any sort of system to cap carbon emissions permits because it would have no effect on climate change and is an unwarranted tax increase on the American people."
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Carl Levin (D-Mich.) [UPDATED] 0
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Sen. Carl Levin is a Midwest, industrial-state Democrat who has concerns about the economic impacts of climate legislation, but thinks something needs to be done about global warming.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) [UPDATED] 1
Posted 3 weeks ago Sen. Arlen Specter had been considered a fence sitter on climate legislation, but on Nov. 5 he sided with all but one of the Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee in voting to move forward with the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) 1
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago Sen. Dianne Feinstein is expected to vote in favor of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. In a letter to a Grist reader, she doesn't explicitly endorse the bill, but she does say it "represents an important step."
The ‘party of no’ becomes the ‘party of slow’ 1
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago Senate Republicans are demanding lengthy economic analyses of progressive clean energy policy, despite having spent careers voting for and against major energy legislation without such delay.
In the clearing stands a Boxer ...

What does recent Senate drama on the climate bill mean? Peak Boxer 7
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago There's been some weird goings-on in Congress around the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill over the past few days. Why has the process been so darn messy? Lots of senators don't want to play ball with Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
Lindsey Graham rebukes fellow Republicans: ‘The green economy is coming’ 1
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago While other Senate Republicans led by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) boycott action on the climate crisis, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has chosen a leadership role.
Fulfilling his promise as the green FDR

One year after his election, Obama on verge of audaciously fulfilling his promise as the green FDR 1
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago What team Obama has accomplished in the year since he was elected is nothing less than an unprecedented reversal of decades of unsustainable national policy forced down the throat of the American public by conservatives.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Jon Tester (D-Mont.) 1
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago The junior senator from Montana, Jon Tester has stayed relatively quiet on climate legislation and thus remains in the “fence-sitter” category.