Lamar Alexander

Sen. Alexander unaware of staggering cost of nuclear power

Sen. Kerry downplays prospect of floor debate this year 0
Posted 1 month ago
Baby carrots

How Senate Dems should lure GOP to a climate bill 9
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The greenosphere is abuzz with the news that a few Republican Senators are open to the climate bill if certain conditions are met. In classic form, Senate Dems are signalling their willingness -- no eagerness! -- to give the Republicans whatever they want.
Nuke it

Lamar Alexander loves the earth too much to support solar and wind 12
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
One of the few Congressional Republicans who talks about the need to address climate change makes an interesting argument against wind and solar energy. It's a bogus argument, but still interesting.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) 0
Posted 4 months ago
"I am one senator who thinks climate change is a problem, humans are causing it, and we need to deal with it," Sen. Lamar Alexander said recently. But he hates the climate bill the Democratic leadership pushed through the House, and he's spoken out against the cap-and-trade approach in general.
West Virginia, Kentucky miners boycott Tennessee over proposed mountaintop removal restrictions 3
Posted 4 months ago
There will be no more excursions to Dollywood for Roger Horton, a coal miner who lives in West Virginia -- at least not until U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) drops legislation he's sponsoring that would limit mountaintop removal mining.
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.
Old dog, nuke tricks

Sen. Alexander calls for 100 new nuke plants, won’t work with Dems on climate bill 8
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on Monday called for 100 new nuclear power plants over the next 20 years as the central element of a climate and energy plan that Republicans intend to introduce in the Senate. In presenting the plan, he shot down the possibility that he would work with Democrats to craft compromise climate and energy legislation.