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How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

George LeMieux (R-Fla.) 0
Posted 1 month ago New Sen. George LeMieux has yet to vote on any key legislation that might give us clues as to whether he would support the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. He said after his appointment that he would want to study specific climate legislation before coming down on one side or the other, while also stressing that the nation needs to "move toward renewable energy,” which he said includes nuclear power.
It begins...

The big stories out of Tuesday’s Senate hearing on Kerry-Boxer 3
Posted 1 month ago Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- the first of three days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill -- didn't contain any big surprises. As Keith Johnson notes, Senators generally played their appointed roles. There are four stories out of today that seem notable.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 month ago Sen. Evan Bayh is widely considered to be a fence-sitter on climate legislation. Read this letter he sent to a constituent in early October.
Senate digs into climate bill at hearings this week 0
Posted 1 month ago This week, the Senate is finally starting to talk seriously about the climate bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) introduced on Sept. 30. Starting on Tuesday, the Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Boxer, is holding three days of hearings on the bill, with a wonk-studded cast of witnesses.
One step forward, several back

The Kerry-Boxer bill is not “more ambitious” than Waxman-Markey 2
Posted 1 month ago I'm sure Steve Mufson and Juliet Eilperin didn't choose the headline, but whoever did, I think it's a real mistake to refer to the Kerry-Boxer bill as "a bit more ambitious" than its Waxman-Markey counterpart in the House. This became conventional wisdom almost immediately, but it seems to me both wrong and pernicious -- the more Kerry-Boxer is seen as a leftward move from the House bill, the more senators who want to be seen as moderate will want to be seen hacking it down.
Still affordable

Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill: Chairman’s mark and EPA analysis released 5
Posted 1 month, 1 week 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.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Sen. Lindsey Graham has stepped up to become the leading Republican advocate of a bipartisan climate bill, joining with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to put forward a framework for climate legislation that they say can actually pass the Senate.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) [UPDATED] 3
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Sen. Lisa Murkowski is open to voting for a cap-and-trade climate bill if it would aggressively boost nuclear power and domestic oil and gas drilling, she said in a C-SPAN interview. "Count me as one of those who will keep my mind open as we move forward," she said.
how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Chuck Grassley dodges and weaves about climate science, says schemes to reduce greenhouse-gas emission amount to "a national energy tax," and calls for more renewable energy.
Corrections Dept.

WSJ reporter knocks own editorial page for Chamber defense 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago It shouldn’t be surprising that Journal editorialists find themselves challenged by their own news staff.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) 5
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says she opposes a cap-and-trade system, arguing that it would raise energy prices for average Americans and cause economic hardship.
We Will All Go Down Together

Ask Umbra on climate weapons 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago It's great that some people want to buy carbon offsets, says Umbra -- but it won't get the job done. Here's her advice on making bigger, better change.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Roland Burris (D-Ill.) 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Roland Burris says he supports many aspects of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill introduced in late September, particularly the provisions on nuclear power, agricultural offsets, and clean coal.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Robert Casey (D-Penn.) 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Robert Casey says he intends to work toward legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, and also talks up "clean coal" and touts his efforts to get funding for carbon-capture-and-sequestration technology.
Less mopin', more hopin'

Seven reasons for optimism about the Senate climate bill 12
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Conventional wisdom says that the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill faces a long uphill slog against unlikely odds. Here's the thing about Beltway CW, though: it always forecasts delay, difficulty, and failure. And it's always right. Until it's wrong. Here are seven reasons for cautious optimism.
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.
Climate bill breakdown 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Wondering how the Senate's Kerry-Boxer climate bill stacks up against the Waxman-Markey version in the House? Russ Choma does the math.
Cost of living

What do we mean when we talk about the cost of climate legislation? 4
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago As the Senate takes up climate change legislation, there's going to be a great deal of talk about its costs, its benefits, and how they stack up against each other. These are vexed conversations, plagued with technical complexity and hidden political agendas. Here's the lay of the land.
OUTFLANKED

‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill 104
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago Acolytes of climatologist James Hansen are not happy with the climate legislation coming out of Washington. And boy do they have some strange ways of showing it.
don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 2 months ago