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Small changes at EPA could have big environmental impacts 1
Posted 4 months ago
While climate change legislation works its way toward 60 votes in the Senate, President Obama's EPA has been quietly working on some serious revisions to the guidelines it uses to conduct cost-benefit analysis. Tweaks they might make to the powerful but low-profile Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses could have major impacts on the environment and could spur greenhouse gas reductions if the Senate fails to take action.
The more we get together, the happier we'll be

Obama tells China the “ravages of climate change” demand cooperation 1
Posted 4 months ago
In a speech to head off the first meeting of the Strategic Economic Dialogue in Washington, D.C between the United States and China this morning, President Obama talks Chinese spending.
nuclear in the clear

Is the proposed clean energy agency a dirty deal for taxpayers and the environment? 0
Posted 4 months ago
U.S. lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a new independent federal agency to promote government investment in clean energy. But watchdogs are concerned about its bias toward nuclear power.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Sen. Byron Dorgan says he wants to address climate change, but he opposes the cap-and-trade approach.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Mary Landrieu (D-La.) 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Sen. Mary Landrieu has been a thorn in the side of enviros for most of her 12 years in the Senate representing Louisiana, a big oil and gas state. And now she's saying she doesn't like cap-and-trade.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Sen. Debbie Stabenow wants to make sure climate legislation doesn't hurt her home state's auto industry.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Jim Webb (D-Va.) 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Sen. Jim Webb is a moderate, and Virginia is a coal state. His House colleagues won major concessions for the coal industry in the Waxman-Markey climate bill, but whether they'll be enough to win over Webb remains to be seen.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Sen. Jay Rockefeller has expressed concerns about the impact a climate bill would have on West Virginia's coal industry.
RealClimate debunks myth while advancing another (that warming is linear) 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The climate science deniers' favorite myths are about cooling. They have cooling myths about the past, they have cooling myths about the present, and they claim that recent studies predict future cooling.
Lithium: Are “blood batteries” next? 3
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The lithium story and the complex social, economic, and political disputes it could engender in Bolivia should flag for us an important consideration in the fight against climate change: trying to do right by climate change and energy security might trigger unforeseen conflicts.
Clean Energy Economy

Is China winning the clean energy race? 7
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Industrialized nations may find themselves borrowing and begging for new technologies that China has been busy perfecting all along.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Pools of oil, plumes of gas 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Washington-to-Beijing diplomatic shuttle shows no sign of slowing down. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited China this week to prod collaboration on clean energy technology. Chu announced the U.S. would contribute $15 million to a partnership that will study how to capture carbon dioxide emissions and trap them underground. And that's just the beginning of this week's climate news.
Twenty ideas that could save the world 3
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
We hear endlessly about the havoc unabated climate change will wreak, about long-term emissions targets and diplomatic wrangling over who will commit to them. But the countless ingenious ideas for tackling the problem emanating from universities, thinktanks, front rooms and sheds across the planet get rather less attention. So the Guardian teamed up with the Manchester International Festival to mount a search for the best of them.
Fox News Fertilizes a Grass-Sod Movement

Lunatic fringe watch: wing nuts unleashed on ACES climate bill 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
If you feel the ground shaking under your feet that is because the United States is about to be swallowed up into the bowels of Hell as the U.S. Senate takes up climate legislation. Or so Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin would have you believe.
A love supreme?

Enviros back Sotomayor for Supreme Court 4
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Green groups are throwing their weight behind Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, even though she doesn't have much of a record on environmental decisions and hasn't always ruled in favor of enviros.
Ewe Betcha

The Climate Post: L’Aquila, the Senate, and shrinking sheep 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Conflicting early reports obscured events at a major international summit in L’Aquila, Italy. The Group of Eight has apparently resolved to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, but disagreed on thorny “mid-term targets."
A walk through the week's climate news

The Climate Post: Has the political climate changed? 7
Posted 5 months ago
First things first: The U.S. House of Representatives last week narrowly voted to overhaul the nation's energy economy by limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions, boosting efficiency, and developing renewable electricity sources. The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act would limit, or "cap," annual pollution and allow industry to buy and sell, or "trade," credits in a new and tightly regulated commodity market. The vote, 219-212, sends an equivocal message to the Senate, where advocates face an even tougher sell. Eight Republicans voted with the majority and 44 Democrats broke with their party leaders.
2 degrees of Earth bakin'

47 groups urge Obama to endorse 2-degree C warming threshold 5
Posted 5 months ago
A broad coalition of environment, science, and faith-based groups sent a letter to President Barack Obama recently asking him to pursue a goal of keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees in upcoming international meetings.
Follow the money

Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene 3
Posted 5 months ago By David Donald, Marianne Lavelle
Southern Company, the nation's largest electric power generator, also had the largest force of lobbyists among the hundreds of businesses and interest groups that were seeking to influence the landmark climate change legislation that just passed the House.
He still makes me look like Paula Abdul

Lovelock warns climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age 0
Posted 5 months ago