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Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill: Chairman’s mark and EPA analysis released 5
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago At close to 11 p.m. EST, Boxer's office has finally released the chairman's mark of the Kerry-Boxer bill. This is the version of the bill that will be debated in hearings this week. Concurrently, the EPA has released its analysis of the economic impacts of the bill. These are both crucial documents that will see a lot of discussion in coming weeks. Here's just a few cursory notes.
Swagga, bitchez!

Greens have finally got the Big Mo 1
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago It looks like greens pushing for clean energy legislation finally have the wind at their back, with a streak of positive media stories about new friends and very stupid enemies.
DOLLARS TO DOUGHNUTS

At Governator’s climate party, EPA chief aims to calm small business worries 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago EPA administrator Lisa Jackson unveiled a modest proposal on Wednesday: If a company wants to build a new power plant or refinery, or fix up a smoky old belcher, it will have to use the best available technology to control greenhouse gases.
Everybody calm down

What the EPA announcement did (and did not) say 17
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The EPA made an announcement today that lots of folks seem to be misinterpreting as "proposed regulations on power plants." That's not what they are.
Sen. Ben Cardin answers Grist’s questions on public transit and mountaintop removal mining 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who boasts close to a perfect score from the League of Conservation Voters, has become a key player on green issues in the Senate and an important voice against mountaintop-removal mining. He was kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
Sports section

Jackson goes for gold 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will be in Chicago Friday to talk about greening the business of sports ... oh, and maybe boost the Windy City's bid for the 2016 summer Olympics.
Blast It, EPA: Make a Decision Already!

A moment of truth for Appalachia, Obama and EPA on mountaintop removal coal mining 4
Posted 2 months ago
EPA’s failure to publicize drinking water data prompts rethinking in agency, Congress 1
Posted 2 months ago
There is some evidence that Congress -- and the Environmental Protection Agency -- are rethinking their policies on a commonly used weed-killer after disclosures that the EPA failed to notify the public about high levels of the herbicide in drinking water.
CoC block

Chamber of Commerce keeps stepping on rakes 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce can't catch a break these days. It has pretended to agree with the goals of climate legislation while recommending changes in the means so drastic that they would gut the bill. But there's a problem: many, many business see enormous opportunities in the shift to clean energy. And many of those businesses happen to be members of the CoC.
Boucher: "Industry needs and wants a bill to pass"

Could Waxman and Markey have used the EPA threat more effectively? 28
Posted 2 months, 1 week 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?
WTFrack?!

EPA: Chemicals found in Wyo. drinking water might be from fracking 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing.
Back to 10th-grade history

US Chamber of Commerce calls for ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ on climate change 19
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to put climate science on trial. This is an attempt to disrupt the effort to fight global warming with a culture war, tying the science of climate change to fundamentalists’ unease with evolution.
Gulp!

EPA fails to inform public about weed-killer in drinking water 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
One of the nation's most widely used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers have not been told and the Environmental Protection Agency has not published the results.
Notable quotable

How Barack Obama is like Marvin Gaye 3
Posted 3 months ago
EPA chief Lisa Jackson draws the comparison.
Block party

Obama admin teams with grassroots groups to ‘Green the Block’ 1
Posted 3 months ago
Green the Block is a new effort by the White House and two grassroots organizations -- Green for All and Hip Hop Caucus -- to bring the benefits of green jobs and clean tech to poor and underserved communities.
Get the lead out, chapter 3

EPA to review 2008 Bush action on lead emissions 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has decided she'll take another look at monitoring of car battery recyclers, concrete kilns and power plants that spew dangerous lead emissions.
Boy, George

Sen. Voinovich stalls confirmation of EPA deputy, demands new climate-bill analysis 3
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) is holding up the confirmation of a deputy administrator at the U.S. EPA until the agency coughs up numbers on the House climate bill that are to his liking.
To air is human

MoveOn calls on Senate to preserve Clean Air Act in climate bill 14
Posted 4 months ago
MoveOn is running full-page ads in D.C.-based publications urging the Senate to maintain the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide.