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Carbon tax news Could the unthinkable become thinked?	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
Over on MyDD, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) discusses the carbon tax bill he recently introduced. My legislation, the Save Our Climate Act (H.R. 2069), would tax coal, petroleum and natural gas at a rate of $10 per ton of carbon content. Applied when these fossil fuels are initially removed from the ground, the tax would increase by $10 each year, freezing when a mandated report by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Energy determines that carbon d ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, legislation, politics (all these topics)

An encouraging farm bill proposal Reps. DeLauro and Gilchrest want to invest in local infrastructure.	Tom Philpott	04 May 2007	Gristmill
Update [2007-5-4 15:15:3 by Tom Philpott]:Oops. I misinterpreted this bill. It's what's known as a 'marker bill,' not intended to be voted on, just to express the opinions of the legislators. Thus its lack of a 'commodity title' doesn't mean its sponsors intend to eliminate commodity payments, as I assumed. Nevertheless, the bill contains good ideas, and remains worthy of debate. It's just not 'epochal,' as I hastily -- and wishfully -- wrote below. When Bush's USDA ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Congress, politics (all these topics)

Hey, Seattleites: Chat about climate with Jay Inslee and friends Catch a climate symposium at Town Hall on May 9	Lisa Hymas	02 May 2007	Gristmill
Rep. Jay Inslee, Democrat from Washington's 1st congressional district and a clean-energy champion, will be discussing climate change with other local eco-experts (and with the audience) at Seattle's Town Hall on May 9. Additional smart folks at the Symposium on Climate Policy, presented by the Thomas C. Wales Foundation, will include Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the first Earth Day and president of the Bullitt Foundation; K.C. Golden of Climate Solutions; Ben Pac ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, energy, Jay Inslee, politics, Seattle (all these topics)

Answer us these questions 15 Senators demand Congressional participation in Endangered Species Act changes	Kate Sheppard	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
On Wednesday, several key Senators sent a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne expressing concern about an Interior Department proposal they say will weaken the Endangered Species Act. The letter states that draft revisions to the act have suggested a major overhaul of the act is under consideration and demands that the Bush administration include Congress in any attempt to rewrite the 30-year-old law. It also includes 15 questions that the Senators want ans ...
Topics: Congress, endangered species, US Senate (all these topics)

Let's all go to the lobby Exxon Mobil hikes spending, big time	Kate Sheppard	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Perhaps fearing the coming crunch of climate and energy legislation, oil giant Exxon Mobil more than doubled their reported lobbying expenditures in 2006 to $14.5 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. This blows their previous year's total of $7.14 million and next-highest-spender Chevron's $7.5 million out of the water.
Topics: Big Oil, business, Congress, lobbying, politics (all these topics)

Schwarzenegger doesn't like having Johnson in his face Legally speaking	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
California is threatening to sue the U.S. EPA for obstructionism. You'll recall that the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled decisively that CO2 is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and that implementing restrictions on vehicle CO2 emissions does not abrogate the DOT's authority to set fuel-efficiency standards. That ruling pretty well destroys the legal basis for the lawsuits automakers have filed against Calif. and other states adopting tough vehicle emissions st ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, California, Congress, politics, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, US EPA (all these topics)

Boxer discusses global warming Video, yo	David Roberts	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Here's Sen. Barbara Boxer (most appropriately named!), discussing global warming at the National Press Club (for 25 min.). Good stuff: (h/t: Hugg)
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, politics (all these topics)

Congress gets a sustainability complex Shooting for a green capitol	Kif Scheuer	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
No, it's not a new psychological disorder, but a plan for greening the capitol complex. Over at Building Design and Construction they've got a piece on the acceptance of a 'green the capitol initiative.' On April 19, Nancy Pelosi accepted a preliminary proposal and ... ... announced that operations of the Capitol Complex, which includes congressional office buildings and the 775,000-sf U.S. Capitol Building, would become carbon neutral no later than the end of the ...
Topics: Congress, greening biz operations, greenwashing, politics (all these topics)

Johnson Takes a Pounding EPA administrator spars with Senate over climate action		25 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Johnson Takes a Pounding EPA administrator spars with Senate over climate action Senate Democrats badgered EPA administrator Stephen Johnson yesterday about the agency's greenhouse-gas foot-dragging. They unleashed a barrage of questions at an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, focusing on the recent Supreme Court ruling that said EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide vehicle emissions. F ...
Topics: climate, Congress, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Conspiracy uncovered! Letter to the editor from Arkansas	Andrew Dessler	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This is the text of a letter to the editor printed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on April 16 of this year: You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and legions of bugs and snakes were crawling around during a time in Arkansas when, on a normal year, we might see a snowflake or two. This shoul ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, insanity, politics (all these topics)

Tighten Up Plans to boost energy efficiency start getting traction in Congress	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Apr 2007	Muckraker
What's not to love about energy efficiency? It's the paradigmatic win-win scenario -- save money, protect the climate and broader environment, and reduce reliance on unsavory sources of energy, all in one fell swoop. As efficiency guru Amory Lovins puts it [PDF], "Using energy more efficiently offers an economic bonanza -- not because of the benefits of stopping global warm ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Congress, Ed Markey, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Different Farm Bill this time around? Pollan weighs in	Jason D Scorse	21 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Michael Pollan thinks so. Let's hope he's right. Call your Senators and Representatives to make sure.
Topics: agriculture, Congress, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Shooting fish in barrels for Earth Day Once a year, the press notices that politics is bad for the environment	JMG	21 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Almost too easy: [S]urrounded by boxes of energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs [Pelosi] wants to install in 12,000 desk lamps, she became conspicuously vague when asked about the pair of towering smokestacks four blocks away. Congress runs the Capitol Power Plant, which heats and cools buildings on the Hill. Two senators ensure it burns coal, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels. The Capitol Power Plant, operated by Congress, is the only coal-burning plant in the Dis ...
Topics: Congress, green living, politics (all these topics)

Sensenbrenner: protecting the children from <del Oy	David Roberts	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A panel of retired generals thinks global warming is an urgent national security threat. The U.N. Security Council thinks global warming is an urgent national security threat. But wait! We forgot to ask Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R)! Sensenbrenner questioned "why global warming has suddenly become an issue of national defense" and afterward accused politicians and pundits of stoking children's fears. Think of the children.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Congress, environmental movement, insanity, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Bingaman and Domenici propose Energy Efficiency Promotion Act Good stuff	David Roberts	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I'll leave it to Gar to judge if the targets are sufficiently aggressive, but either way I'm happy to see new legislation on energy efficiency being proposed in Congress. This stuff isn't sexy and doesn't garner much media attention, but -- as we keep saying -- efficiency is the low-hanging fruit. Time to eat some of it.
Topics: Congress, energy efficiency, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Presidential contender supports carbon tax If you can really call Chris Dodd a 'contender'	David Roberts	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Finally, a candidate for president has come out in support of a carbon tax! OK, it was Chris Dodd, but still. Dodd's big energy speech this morning was mostly the usual stuff about tax credits and subsidies, but here's the section that produced the headline: The truth is, we can make all the clean energy investments in the world, but we will never be able to rid ourselves of fossil fuel energy sources when they remain the cheapest option. It's true that so ...
Topics: carbon tax, Chris Dodd, Congress, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Boxer is a fighter	Adam Browning	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Senator Boxer vows to take the global warming fight to the administration, rules out carbon tax in favor of cap and trade. The San Francisco Chronicle has the details.
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, Congress, legislation, politics (all these topics)

An organic House ... or at least one representative	Samuel Fromartz	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The House of Representatives held its first Ag committee hearing ever on organic agriculture today. I attended the hearing and found out Rep. Dennis Cardoza, the California Democrat who chairs of the House subcommittee on horticulture and organic agriculture, belongs to an organic CSA! For a full report, see the post on Chews Wise.
Topics: agriculture, Congress, food, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Gristmill to Schweitzer: STFU Quit with the coal boosting already	David Roberts	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Down in Salt Lake City, the National Governors Association is holding a three-day Energy Summit. Tired of federal slacking, the NGA has for the first time in its history drawn up a specific list of priorities for Congress to consider this session. Here's what they said: At the top of the list - in fact, an 'imperative' - is acting to head off the devastation of climate change, Huntsman said during opening remarks at the three-day Utah Energy Summit in downtown Salt ...
Topics: coal, Congress, energy, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Step It Up media coverage Mostly in the local papers	David Roberts	14 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I'm moving this to a separate thread. I'm trying to track news coverage of SIU events -- most of which is popping up in local and regional newspapers. If you know of a story I haven't got here, leave it in comments -- I'll be updating. Forthwith: Coverage of Step It Up events in Annapolis, Md., the Hudson Valley, all across Maine, Chicago, Pennsylvania, the Adirondack Mountains, Michigan, Florida, Southern California, Notre Dame, several Conn. towns, Colorado College ...
Topics: Congress, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Step it up! Get out there on the street!	David Roberts	14 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Today is the day! Across the United States, in more than 1,300 communities, citizens are gathering together at local grassroots events to send a clear message to Congress: Step it up. Pass legislation that will insure an 80% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The world's eyes are upon us. Go here to find an event in your area. Later today, after I get a little sleep, I will be attempting to chronicle at least some portion of what promises to be a historical o ...
Topics: Congress, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Green around the Gilchrest Good interview on climate change	Kate Sheppard	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Good interview with Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) in Foreign Policy in Focus this week. Gilchrest, chair of the House Climate Change Caucus and co-sponsor of the Climate Stewardship Act, was not appointed to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming last month because he refused to deny that humans are causing climate change. A few excerpts from the interview: Gilchrest: There's no question that we're at a time when we need strong, bold initiati ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Congress, politics (all these topics)

Jay Fever An interview with Rep. Jay Inslee, clean-energy champion from Washington state	David Roberts	11 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Rep. Jay Inslee's two central passions, clean energy and global warming, received scant attention during his last eight years in Congress. Now, after a power shift on Capitol Hill, he's at the center of high-profile efforts to attack climate change and promote a new energy economy -- not to mention get his colleagues up to speed on the issues. The Democrat from Washington sta ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, interview, Jay Inslee (all these topics)

She Puts the Dud in Dudley Bush appoints anti-regulation advocate as top regulatory official		05 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
She Puts the Dud in Dudley Bush appoints anti-regulation advocate as top regulatory official Mere days ago, we mentioned that President Bush might give Congress the runaround by making recess appointments of industry-tied folk to top environmentally related positions in his administration. Well, that didn't take long. Meet Susan Dudley, the newly appointed head of the Office of Information and Regulatory ...
Topics: Congress, George Bush, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Eventually, politicians give the people what they want So keep it up	Adam Browning	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Think about this article -- descriptively titled "Legislature flooded with bills about climate crisis; poll driven politicians see need to tackle global warming" -- the next time you get an email asking you to call or email your representative on an environmental issue. You keep it up long enough and they get it: Few issues are hotter in the Capitol this year than global warming.Lawmakers have introduced more than 60 bills on the topic, and no wonder. Poll ...
Topics: cars, climate change adaptation, Congress, electric vehicles, grassroots activism, politics, Prius (all these topics)

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