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DNC: Dingell ducks Grist tries (unsuccessfully) to find out Rep. John Dingell's climate and energy plans	Kate Sheppard	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) spoke yesterday at an event sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation -- 'I Fish, I Hunt, I Vote Conservation' -- where he talked up conservation efforts and the common ground Democrats have with sportsmen. We tried to get Dingell, who is notoriously tight-lipped, to tell us about his plans for climate and energy legislation. But it was to little avail -- all we could get was, 'Chairman Dingell wan ...
Topics: climate, Democratic National Convention, energy, John Dingell, Muckraker, video (all these topics)

White paper trail Dingell issues another glimpse at where he stands on climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	01 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The world is still waiting with bated breath for climate legislation from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee chair Rick Boucher (D-Va.) are supposedly collaborating on bill. In the meantime, the committee has been issuing a series of 'white papers' on climate legislation. Last week they released their fourth installment [PDF], 'Getting the Most Greenhouse Gas Reductions for Our Money,' ...
Topics: climate, John Dingell, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Monday links	David Roberts	05 May 2008	Gristmill
As promised, here's yet another bunch of links for your leisurely perusal: Fortune writer Adam Lashinsky has a great round-up from the Brainstorm Green conference. My only beef is with this, about Lomborg: Even if you believe that global warming is an abject crisis, I simply reject the argument that it's a bad idea to test your beliefs by listening to someone who disagrees or who is proposing a different solution. Well ... of course. The question is whether, af ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, coal, energy, John Dingell, politics (all these topics)

Carbon tax loses a congressional voice Dingell takes his 'hybrid tax' off the table	Charles Komanoff	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The carbon tax camp lost a powerful congressional voice yesterday when Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) announced he was taking 'off the table' the hybrid carbon tax proposal he floated last fall that featured a national carbon fee, supplemental increases in taxes on gasoline and aviation fuel, and a reduction in the mortgage interest deduction for super-large houses. In a prepared statement, the Michigan lawmaker, who for much of his 54 years in Congress has chaired th ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, climate, energy, gas prices, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Dingell to debut House climate bill in April	David Roberts	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Dingell says he'll release a draft of a House climate change bill for comment and feedback in mid-April (sub rqd).
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
"Jack [Murtha] and other senior leaders now all march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi, to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous Speaker. And I'm surprised by that. I think of John Dingell and the energy business. This is a hot item right now. But I don't see John Dingell driving that train. It looks to me like Nancy Pelosi is driving that train. And that is -- well, it's surprising when I think of the -- I'm trying to think how to say all o ...
Topics: John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Dingell concedes House Energy Committee chair John Dingell expresses support for Energy Bill	David Roberts	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Good Car-ma House Democrats agree to raise auto fuel economy to 35 mpg		01 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 9:31 AM on 01 Dec 2007 Democratic leaders in the U.S. House reached a deal late Friday night to raise fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks to an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 -- a 40 percent increase from today's standard of 27.5 mpg for cars and 22.2 mpg for SUVs and pickups. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who's been pushing for an increase, came to agreement with House Commerce Commit ...
Topics: John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi (all these topics)

Think global: Act Dingell If Dingell's your Rep., tell him what you want	David Roberts	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Are you a constituent of Michigan Rep. John Dingell? Via the grammatically challenged but well-meaning Think Global: Act Dingell, you can let him know you'd like him to show genuine leadership on energy and climate. Whatever else Dingell may be -- and I expect we'll be having that argument again before the year's out -- he is a committed and conscientious representative. If his constituents speak in one voice, I think he'll listen.
Topics: politics, John Dingell, climate, energy (all these topics)

Killing me loudly Big Green savages Dingell's carbon tax	Charles Komanoff	15 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'Man always kills the thing he loves,' wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold in the environmentalist bible, A Sand County Almanac. Leopold was referring to Americans' destruction of the wilderness, but he could have been describing the green establishment's hostile reaction to the 'hybrid carbon tax' proposed by Michigan Rep. John Dingell last month. Dingell's tax package, combining a carbon-busting tax on fossil fuels, a surtax on gasoline and jet fuel, and a phase-ou ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Donning his cap Dingell endorses a cap-and-trade climate plan	Brian Beutler	03 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Just days after releasing his carbon-and-gas tax proposal for public comment, House Energy and Commerce Chair John Dingell (D-Auto) -- along with Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Coal) of Virginia -- has released a report [PDF] endorsing an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. In an odd but welcome turn, the 22-page white paper reads:The United States should reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 and 80 percent by 2050 to contribute to efforts to address climate chan ...
Topics: politics, climate, energy, legislation, John Dingell, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Dingell's absurd poison-pill climate plan John Dingell's carbon-tax bill is designed to be unpopular	Joseph Romm	02 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The carbon plan of Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is considerably lamer -- and more transparently a poison pill -- than early reports suggested. So I strongly disagree with Chris Dodd, Friends of the Earth, and Gristmill's Charles Komanoff, who all applaud the bill. Here's why. First, as Dingell himself has said, he wanted to design a bill with maximum pain to prove to everyone how unpalatable greenhouse gas mitigation is (see below). Why else include a pointless $0.50 ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, John Dingell, legislation, politics, sprawl (all these topics)

The Dingell Life Michigan Rep. John Dingell drafts a carbon-tax bill		27 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 27 Sep 2007 Michigan Rep. John Dingell (D) has drafted a carbon-tax bill and posted a summary to his website to solicit public feedback. In its current form, Dingell's legislation would phase in over five years a $50-per-ton tax on carbon and a tax of 50 cents per gallon on gasoline and jet fuel (after five years the tax would be indexed to inflation). The bill would also phase out tax deductions for homes ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, John Dingell, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Quote of the day Dingell gets off a zinger in a testy interview	David Roberts	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
"I run a legislative committee. Mr. Markey runs around the world watching glaciers melt." -- Rep. John Dingell Ouch. That comes from a characteristically testy interview Dingell did with Newsweek. It's worth reading the whole thing. I don't know what his intent is with this carbon tax bill, but I will say that the tenor of his message on global warming is politically disastrous. It is, paraphrasing, this: "Global warming is a serious problem. Solving ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Dingell opens the door Rep. John Dingell introduces his hybrid carbon tax	Charles Komanoff	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
With a mighty creak of long-rusted hinges, a door is finally opening in Washington. The present Congress will apparently be asked to consider a carbon tax. The measure -- actually, a hybrid carbon and petroleum tax -- will be introduced by the powerful chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). Today Dingell posted on his website a summary of the bill, which he began drafting in June. The current version would phase in ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

You too can be John Dingell's legislative adviser Dingell wants feedback on his carbon tax bill	David Roberts	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Rep. John Dingell is going to put a draft of his carbon tax bill on his website this Thursday, to solicit feedback. (Did I say "tax"? I meant "emissions fee.") Reportedly, this marks the first time Dingell's done something like this. I dunno. If he's just introducing the tax to sabotage the rest of the climate legislation in the House, why do this? Why allow for public comment before introducing a bill if you mean the bill to fail? Inscrutabl ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

There's one	David Roberts	08 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Chris Dodd comes out in support of Dingell's carbon tax proposal. Think anybody else will?
Topics: carbon tax, Chris Dodd, climate, energy, John Dingell, politics (all these topics)

Dingell-hopper Examining John Dingell's about-face on climate change	Brian Beutler	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
New York Times economics writer David Leonhardt examines a question that David and I have enjoyed disagreeing about (or at least that I've enjoyed disagreeing with David about) for a couple of months now: Is John Dingell sincere about tackling climate change, or is he pulling old tricks? Leonhardt recounts the tale of Dingell's efforts to block fuel-economy standards introduced by former Sen. Richard Bryan a couple of decades ago by introducing a bill that would have ...
Topics: climate, John Dingell, politics (all these topics)

Things I learned from the L.A. Times piece on Dingell	David Roberts	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Rep. John Dingell is Polish stock -- his immigrant grandfather changed the name from Dzieglewicz. Who knew?
Topics: John Dingell (all these topics)

Dingell is dispensable Even though conventional wisdom says you need him to pass major environmental legislation	Glenn Hurowitz	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Whether House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell is a potential friend or an implacable foe is not only the subject of intense debate here at Gristmill, but a key strategic question for the environmental movement and the Democratic Party. I recently wrote an article for The American Prospect about how Dingell's fellow congressional Democrats are abandoning him as he tries to obstruct meaningful energy and climate legislation -- and implied that his diminished p ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics (all these topics)

Greenpeace responds They didn't like being called 'costumed twits'	David Roberts	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday I took some potshots at the Greenpeace protestors following Rep. John Dingell around. Chris Miller, director of Greenpeace US's global warming campaign, contacted me to ask if he could post a response. Of course I said yes. Again, for those who seem to miss this: this post is not by me, David Roberts. It is by Chris Miller of Greenpeace. Got it? Here it is: ----- Greenpeace -- or 'costumed twits' as you call us -- has been on the front lines in t ...
Topics: climate, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, John Dingell (all these topics)

Dingell's dimwitted detractors Activists pester him about the most trivial stuff	David Roberts	09 Aug 2007	Gristmill
OK, I'm back to defending Dingell (sorry Brian!), mainly because the activists attacking him are acting like idiots. At a town hall in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dingell unveiled the various climate-change proposals he's going to introduce to Congress on Sep. 1. Press coverage of the event is fairly sketchy, and I can't find a transcript anywhere, so there's not a lot of detail, but the measures include: A carbon tax of up to $100 per ton. A gas tax of $0.50 a gall ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

More Dingell Is he losing his influence?	David Roberts	09 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Glenn Hurowitz writes that Dingell may finally be losing his influence: Part of the reason for Dingell's decreasing power is that he's become rather unpopular within a Democratic caucus that's willing to tolerate internal policy differences, but increasingly unwilling to accept his barely veiled attacks on Pelosi and his open war with the environmental movement, which is providing more and more ground troops to Democratic field operations on Election Day. The guy i ...
Topics: energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Dems do in fact wimp out on CAFE for now Sadly	Joseph Romm	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
E&E Daily (subs. req'd) confirms earlier press reports: Markey [D-MA] said in a statement yesterday that he decided to pull his amendment after consulting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), even though he believed he had the votes to move the legislation. While Pelosi personally favored a CAFE standard of 35 miles per gallon, industry lobbyists said she did not whip votes on the legislation and it appeared Markey was not assured of the ...
Topics: climate, Ed Markey, energy, fuel efficiency, John Dingell, Nancy Pelosi, politics (all these topics)

Dingell argues for a carbon tax In a prominent op-ed	David Roberts	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Today in the Washington Post, Rep. John Dingell has an op-ed arguing on behalf of a carbon tax: I apparently created a mini-storm last month when I observed publicly for at least the sixth time since February that some form of carbon emissions fee or tax (including a gasoline tax) would be the most effective way to curb carbon emissions and make alternatives economically viable. ... A carbon tax or fee has been endorsed by President Bush's former chief economic a ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, John Dingell, politics (all these topics)

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