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  • Boucher: "Industry needs and wants a bill to pass"

    Could Waxman and Markey have used the EPA threat more effectively? 28

    Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Should Waxman and Markey have kicked off House climate bill negotiations with a stronger ask?

    The bill they introduced was effectively the USCAP proposal, which already reflected years of negotiation and compromise. The idea was that the difficult work of negotiations had already been done -- enviros and business both on board! -- and it would be easy for conservative Dems (and a few Republicans) to sign off on it.

    Of course that's not what has happened. Republicans are balking en masse. Conservative Dems have compromised the bill down further, and by all indications will further weaken it in the Senate. Could the bill have ended up in a stronger place if it had started in a stronger place?

  • i'll bouch for that

    Newt’s ASWF Attacks: “Why Did Rick Boucher Vote To Kill Virginia Jobs?” 1

    Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago

    “Why did Rick Boucher vote to kill Virginia jobs?” Newt Gingrich’s coal-powered front group, American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF), asked this incendiary question of the coal-district Democrat in a full-page advertisement in the Roanoke Times.

  • Southern Utility Blues, part three

    Defending coal in climate legislation 3

    Posted 6 months ago

    How does a legislator negotiate when he believes "clean coal" is the only serious low-carbon option for his constituents and donors? Just watch Rick Boucher.

  • Rick rolled

    Climate protesters arrested at sit-in outside Rick Boucher’s office 3

    Posted 6 months ago

    Capitol Police arrested 15 protesters outside the office of Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) on Thursday as the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill continued.

  • Southern Utility Blues, part two

    Southern Company, coal plants, and the latest gizmo 0

    Posted 6 months ago

    Politically connected utilities in the south and midwest want the route of least resistence on climate change, and that's "clean coal."

  • “I intend to vote yes and I intend to encourage all other members of the committee to do the same”

    Waxman’s big get: VA Rep. Boucher 0

    Posted 6 months, 1 week ago

    Key Virginia Democrat gets behind the Waxman-Markey bill. Pelosi backs off summer floor vote.

  • With Markey in place, the House is geared for ambition on climate and energy 2

    Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

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