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“You just can’t just throw that stuff out there.”

Must-see video of Sen. Kerry grilling AEI’s Kenneth Green 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Where there's a will ...

Can EPA regulations on CO2 be blocked? 9
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago It's widely assumed that if Congress fails to pass a clean energy bill, the EPA will step in to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007's Mass v. EPA that the agency must do so if it finds CO2 to be a danger -- and sure enough, the EPA sent the White House its final endangerment finding Monday. EPA regulations now appear inevitable and unstoppable. But don't be so sure.
News and views on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill 0
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago Here's where we're tracking news and opinion on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, which is now crawling through the Senate.
Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans—Part 2 0
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA), by an 11-1 vote. Earlier this week, we outlined six benefits of the bill and explained why the bill should be passed by the committee. Here are nine more benefits as the legislation moves forward.
In the clearing stands a Boxer ...

What does recent Senate drama on the climate bill mean? Peak Boxer 7
Posted 2 weeks, 3 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 2 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.
Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans—Part 1 2
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago While the obstructionists attempt to block progress, they will also stop many provisions that would benefit Americans. Daniel J. Weiss lists a number of important benefits that government and academic analyses determined about ACES that also apply to the CEJAPA.
Polluting and young minds

Sen. Kerry to youth on climate bill: We’re gonna need your help 2
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago On a conference call Tuesday night with young climate activists, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) hinted that sort-of climate news will come out of President Obama's upcoming trip to China and that getting a bill through Congress will mean compromising with Republicans who want more nuclear energy.
Mass. religious, environmental leaders beseech Obama to take action

WWLD: What Would Lincoln Do? 2
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Conjuring images of another world leader faced with a profound moral challenge, Massachusetts religious and environmental leaders call upon Obama to act on climate quickly.
Kerry smacks down Inhofe’s lies about the cost of climate policy 1
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago At today's hearing on the Kerry-Boxer bill, Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla.) was spouting the usual lies about the high cost of the policy. Kerry responded:
Senate digs into climate bill at hearings this week 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago This week, the Senate is finally starting to talk seriously about the climate bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) introduced on Sept. 30. Starting on Tuesday, the Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Boxer, is holding three days of hearings on the bill, with a wonk-studded cast of witnesses.
Five scoops of compromise

Sampling the competing flavors of the Senate climate debate 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago Senators of all stripes are screaming for some kind of climate and energy bill, but like schoolkids at the ice cream parlor, each is crying out for a different flavor.
Pretty words

Obama energy speech contained few policy specifics, but shaped forward-looking narrative 1
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Obama delivered a speech on energy at MIT on Friday, marking the kick-off for what is likely to be a protracted effort by the administration and Democrats in the Senate to pass the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) 0
Posted 1 month ago Sen. Lindsey Graham has stepped up to become the leading Republican advocate of a bipartisan climate bill, joining with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to put forward a framework for climate legislation that they say can actually pass the Senate.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Strange bedfellows edition 0
Posted 1 month ago With Lindsey Graham throwing his support behind a senate climate bill, some conservatives are asking why he hopped in bed with the enemy. Which is shortsighted! Not to mention, it forces us to picture John Kerry naked. Wrote a poem about it.
Teabaggers erupt at Lindsey Graham: ‘Wussypants, girly-man, half-a-sissy’ 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Right-wing activists across the nation are enraged by Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) decision to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to craft comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation.
Less mopin', more hopin'

Seven reasons for optimism about the Senate climate bill 12
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Conventional wisdom says that the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill faces a long uphill slog against unlikely odds. Here's the thing about Beltway CW, though: it always forecasts delay, difficulty, and failure. And it's always right. Until it's wrong. Here are seven reasons for cautious optimism.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: U.S. to Kyoto Protocol: just not that into you 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The U.S. Senate is looking at new climate change legislation as the COP-15 global talks in Copenhagen approach this December. These two stories have fed off and driven each other all year. That they are happening together offers a clear view of just how stark differences are on what the U.S. should do.
Kerrying the load

CEJAPA is Kerry’s bill 3
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Here's how the first line of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act begins: "Mr. KERRY (for himself and Mrs. BOXER) introduced the following bill ..." See whose name is first there?
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.