Cap And Trade

Singin' in the rain

What to make of the new climate poll 35
Posted 2 days, 15 hours ago There's a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out on climate change; Juliet Eilperin's got a good piece up about it (despite the terrible headline, for which she is not responsible). Having watched this story bounce around, I'm frustrated yet again by how these polls are discussed. Here's how I would write the lede to the story.
“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 ago
Copenhagen climate crash

Hot planet to Obama: What’s your Plan B? 6
Posted 1 week, 2 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.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

George Voinovich (R-Ohio) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 week, 3 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.
how will senators vote on a climate bill?

Al Franken (D-Minn.) 3
Posted 1 week, 4 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, 4 days ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Dick Durbin signals strong support for the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
On what day will Obama sign the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill into law?

The environMENTALIST contest 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Looks like the European Trading System has worked after all

Europe to easily beat Kyoto target 1
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago Europe made a major commitment under the Kyoto Protocol that U.S. conservatives have been telling us for years it would never achieve. In fact, the Europeans are poised to surpass their targets under the terms of the Protocol. It is no longer plausible for those who don’t want a U.S. cap-and-trade system to point to the European Trading System (ETS) as a failure. Quite the reverse.
Fourteen Democratic senators stick up for coal 6
Posted 2 weeks 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.
Listen and learn

How carbon markets work in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative 0
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago With all the hand-wringing over the alleged risk of market manipulation in cap-and-trade, you'd almost forget that the United States already has a carbon cap-and-trade program up and running. But it does.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) [UPDATED] 5
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day 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."
‘Subprime carbon’: Risk or hype? 1
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago Friends of the Earth argues that carbon trading could bring down the economy, putting climate policy into the hands of Bernie Madoff-style Wall Street bankers. Of course, this isn’t true. It’s not even sort of true. It’s just an attempt to torpedo the Kerry-Boxer clean-energy bill by sowing confusion about an important and sensitive issue.
New nukes? A fair shot, not a free ride 4
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago KC Golden offers this advice to his friends in the nuclear industry: If you believe in nuclear power as a solution to global warming and fossil fuel dependence, you should be leading the charge for a strong national climate policy, with tight, science-based limits on carbon emissions. However, you should NOT condition your support for national climate policy on lavish subsidies from taxpayers.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Mark Warner (D-Va.) 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago Sen. Mark Warner recognizes the need to take action on climate change, but wants to ensure that legislation will not negatively impact the economy. He seems a safe bet to support the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
News and views on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago Here's where we're tracking news and opinion on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, which is now crawling through the Senate.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) 1
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago Sen. Roger Wicker plans to oppose the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. In a letter to a constituent, he writes, "I am opposed to any sort of system to cap carbon emissions permits because it would have no effect on climate change and is an unwarranted tax increase on the American people."
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Carl Levin (D-Mich.) [UPDATED] 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Sen. Carl Levin is a Midwest, industrial-state Democrat who has concerns about the economic impacts of climate legislation, but thinks something needs to be done about global warming.
Memo to North Dakota

To unlock wind power, put a price on carbon 7
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago Why does wind power account for just 2% of North Dakota's electricity generation - barely matching wind's national share? One obvious reason is lack of transmission capability to reach load centers. But another is the extraordinary cheapness of coal.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) [UPDATED] 1
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago Sen. Arlen Specter had been considered a fence sitter on climate legislation, but on Nov. 5 he sided with all but one of the Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee in voting to move forward with the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade 28
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are EPA attorneys who have taken up advocating against cap-and-trade on behalf of rebated carbon taxes, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed. They also posted a video to YouTube making many of the same arguments at somewhat greater length. Now the EPA has instructed them to take the video down by the close of business today, at pain of disciplinary action from EPA ethics officials, and to submit any future drafts to EPA officials before posting.