Kerry Boxer Climate Bill

Notable Quotable

Obama administration officials grateful for early spring 10
Posted 5 days, 6 hours ago When a bill to address climate change gets put off, be grateful that climate change itself pitches in to help.
Inhofe to Boxer: “We Won, You Lost, Now Get a Life!” 0
Posted 6 days, 14 hours ago
“Slicing and dicing isn’t going to work. It’s time to finally have comprehensive energy legislation in this country.”

Carol Browner strongly backs bipartisan cap-and-trade bill 1
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago
Nobody knows nothin'

Reflecting on the lameness of my profession 11
Posted 1 week, 3 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.
Copenhagen climate crash

Hot planet to Obama: What’s your Plan B? 6
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago The planet just can't endure another year of inaction. Obama should travel to the Copenhagen climate conference in December and guarantee dramatic action from the U.S. in 2010 even if it means blowing everything up in Congress and starting over.
“I think if we do it right, the energy bill, the climate bill can be very, very job productive”

Reid plans debate on bipartisan bill “sometime in the spring” 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Tortoise and the hare -- a clean energy tale

Winning the clean energy race: a new strategy for American leadership 5
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago You know times are changing when China, the world’s greatest polluter, and other Asian nations are poised to dominate the burgeoning global clean-tech industry by out-investing the United States. That’s the conclusion of a large new report we co-authored called "Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant," released this week by the Breakthrough Institute and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

George Voinovich (R-Ohio) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 week, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 days ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Dick Durbin signals strong support for the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
World leaders say Copenhagen to be a stepping stone 0
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago
On what day will Obama sign the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill into law?

The environMENTALIST contest 0
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago
Extending the runway

Delaying an international climate treaty: not as bad as it looks 28
Posted 1 week, 6 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.
Outline of bipartisan Kerry, Lieberman, Graham proposal likely beforehand

U.N. deputy says Copenhagen deal may take two stage approach 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago
“You just can’t just throw that stuff out there.”

Must-see video of Sen. Kerry grilling AEI’s Kenneth Green 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago
But Senate Finance Committee calls on polluter lobbyists to attack clean energy yet again

Baucus supports a climate bill and knows it will pass Congress, 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Fourteen Democratic senators stick up for coal 6
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days 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, 3 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."
Senate Finance Committee calls on polluter lobbyists to defend pollution economy yet again 2
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago On Tuesday, Sen. Max Baucus's (D-Mont.) Finance Committee will look at the effect of clean energy legislation on the "future of jobs." Appearing before the committee are four industry or conservative lobbyists and one coal-industry union lobbyist, Abraham Breehey. The only economist to testify will be Margo Thorning, a lobbyist for the anti-tax American Council on Capital Formation. Also testifying is Carol Berrigan, a nuclear industry representative, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Kenneth Green.