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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Snarkey Markey Seeing through the EPA's BS	Sir Oolius	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, Congress, Ed Markey, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

Thought: Control Waxman and Markey introduce bill to ban new dirty coal plants		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 11 Mar 2008 House Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have introduced the "Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008," which would do pretty much what it sounds like: prevent new coal plants in the U.S. unless they're built with advanced pollution controls. Says Waxman, "The altemative is senseless -- locking in decades of additional global war ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, Ed Markey, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Time Is Money Daylight-saving time leads to higher energy use, says study		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:32 PM on 27 Feb 2008 Daylight-saving time was enacted as an energy-saving measure, but when time springs forward on March 9, people may actually use more energy, says a new study. When all of Indiana began to participate in daylight-saving time -- before 2006, only 15 of the state's 92 counties would spring forward and fall back -- researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara started tracking Hoos ...
Topics: Ed Markey, energy, energy at home, Indiana, news (all these topics)

Rep. Markey on the energy bill	David Roberts	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, Ed Markey, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Whither the energy bill? Rep. Ed Markey looks down the road on climate and energy	Brian Beutler	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, Ed Markey, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Markey and the FTC Rep. Markey asks the Federal Trade Commission to investigate voluntary carbon offsets	Sean Casten	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, Ed Markey, energy, politics (all these topics)

Yup. Stuck with coal. The word from today's hearing of Markey's climate committee	Brian Beutler	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: politics, climate, energy, coal, Ed Markey (all these topics)

Dems do in fact wimp out on CAFE for now Sadly	Joseph Romm	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, Ed Markey, energy, fuel efficiency, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics (all these topics)

Green Jobs Act of 2007 Pelosi's plan to save the polar bears -- and poor kids, too ...	Van Jones	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Ed Markey, green jobs, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, Van Jones (all these topics)

Democrats poised to wimp out on CAFE for now; Dingell pursues 'poison pill' strategy on climate The latest from Congress	Joseph Romm	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, Ed Markey, energy, fuel efficiency, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics (all these topics)

House offset hearing on Wed.	Joseph Romm	17 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, Ed Markey, energy, politics (all these topics)

Update on House energy bill sausage making Mixed news	David Roberts	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Ed Markey, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

What role coal? The chair of the Select Committee on Global Warming weighs in	Representative Ed Markey	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, Ed Markey, energy, politics (all these topics)

Flaws in the Boucher bill It would pre-empt state fuel efficiency laws	Joseph Romm	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: air pollution, Big Auto, California, cars, Congress, Ed Markey, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Nancy Pelosi, 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)

On the Markey, get set	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Congress, Ed Markey, politics (all these topics)

Better Off Ed An interview with Rep. Ed Markey about the politics of climate change	David Roberts	22 Mar 2007	Main Dish

Topics: climate, Congress, Ed Markey, energy, interview, politics (all these topics)

Membership of the new House committee on global warming All but one of the R's voted against it	David Roberts	09 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate change adaptation, Ed Markey, Nancy Pelosi, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

House creates global warming committee Vote passes easily	David Roberts	08 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate change adaptation, Ed Markey, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Dingell meets Gore Gore to testify to Congress	David Roberts	03 Feb 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate change adaptation, Ed Markey, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Gauge Match Push to raise fuel-economy standards gaining new support	Amanda Griscom Little	11 May 2006	Muckraker

Topics: Congress, consumerism, Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics (all these topics)

Lies, Lies, and Videotape		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lies, Lies, and Videotape A picture is worth a thousand words: So reasoned Interior Secretary Gale Norton when she mailed copies of a videotape of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to major television stations and encouraged news producers to use the footage in their coverage of the debate over drilling. (In contrast to videos of the Arctic Refuge produced by conservat ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, Ed Markey, energy, oil, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

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