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Do as the Bill Says, Not as It Does Senators both GOP and Dem introduce destined-to-fail legislation		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:54 PM on 07 May 2008 Senate Democrats are trying once again to yank $17 billion in tax breaks away from oil companies that are enjoying booming profits. The Consumer-First Energy Act, introduced in the Senate on Wednesday, would also put a 25 percent tax on oil companies that don't invest in renewable energy. Bill cosponsor Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sums up, "Big Oil is making money h ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

The fossil bloc makes its play New Senate alternatives to L-W would take climate policy backwards -- way backwards	David Roberts	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Now We've Heard Udall Green groups announce support for Senate campaigns		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:00 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A coalition of large green groups has pledged to support Mark Udall, Tom Udall, and Jeanne Shaheen in their campaigns to become senators in 2008. Colorado Representative Mark Udall and his cousin, New Mexico Representative Tom Udall, will run for Senate seats in their respective states; Shaheen is the former governor of New Hampshire, and will run there. All three are Democrats. The green g ...
Topics: Colorado, elections, environmental movement, League of Conservation Voters, New Hampshire, New Mexico, news, politics, Sierra Club, state politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Will you pay or will you go? Renewables score big victory in the Senate	Josh Dorner	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives, US Senate (all these topics)

Interest in Renewing Renewables Renewed Boosts for renewable energy get another go-round in the Senate		04 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:28 AM on 04 Apr 2008 Wind- and solar-boosting folk are crossing their fingers that new Senate legislation will succeed in extending renewable-energy tax credits set to expire at the end of 2008. The Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act is framed as an economic boon: "If both houses of Congress don't pass a bill and the president doesn't sign it into law soon, we will start to see as ...
Topics: energy, legislation, news, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

Better Safe Than Sorry Senate passes consumer-safety bill that would reduce toxics in toys		06 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:28 PM on 06 Mar 2008 The U.S. Senate has passed legislation aimed at decreasing consumer exposure to dangerous products (like, oh, lead-tainted toys, to pick a random example). Specifically, the measure passed Thursday would increase the staff and budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; sharply reduce acceptable levels of lead and phthalates in toys; create a database of public compl ...
Topics: green living, green products, legislation, news, parenting, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics)

Not Everyone Can Be a Decider Timing of EPA decision on vehicle greenhouse-gas regulation still a mystery		05 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:18 AM on 05 Mar 2008 When will the U.S. EPA decide whether to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions? EPA head Stephen Johnson testified in the Senate Tuesday that he just couldn't say, even though it's been nearly a year since the agency was directed by the Supreme Court to make that decision. When asked whether any EPA staffers were currently working on the issue, Johnson s ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, US Senate (all these topics)

Now We've Senate All Clean-energy-boosting economic stimulus bill falls one vote short in Senate		06 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:43 PM on 06 Feb 2008 The Senate version of the economic stimulus bill, which included clean-energy incentives, was shot down in the chamber this evening. The loss was predicted, though the closeness of the vote perhaps wasn't -- had one more senator voted "aye," the package would have passed. Green group Friends of the Earth blames the loss on Sen. John McCain, who failed to sh ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, legislation, news, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

Check, Please Clean-energy credits likely to be stripped from Senate economic stimulus bill		01 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:55 PM on 01 Feb 2008 Renewable-energy incentives and green-job boosts are likely to be stripped out of the current Senate version of the much-hyped economic stimulus bill when it goes before the full chamber next week. But hey, if the Senate gives in to pressure to quickly pass a pared-down version, at least you'll get your check sooner. Consumerism will save the day! sources:� The New York T ...
Topics: legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Stimulating Indeed Senators include clean-energy incentives in economic stimulus bill		30 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:57 PM on 30 Jan 2008 More than 40 senators, of both the Democrat and Republican persuasion, got behind a successful effort to include green-job boosting and renewable-energy incentives in the Senate version of an economic stimulus package. The legislation passed markup in the Finance Committee today and now heads to the Senate floor for a final vote. source:� Sierra Club F ...
Topics: business, energy, green jobs, news, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

Will You Be Mining? Senate committee considers mining reform, not all that into it		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:13 PM on 25 Jan 2008 The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing yesterday on mining reform, indicating unwillingness to overhaul 136-year-old U.S. mining policy anywhere near as much as would a House of Representatives bill passed this fall. Senators seemed generally open to creating a cleanup fund and placing royalties on new mines, but key lawmakers from Western states balked a ...
Topics: energy, legislation, mining, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Johnson Hangs Tough EPA chief won't back down on unpopular California auto-emissions decision		24 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:58 PM on 24 Jan 2008 U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson appeared before Senate Democrats today to defend his decision to deny California's auto-emissions waiver. Johnson stood his ground while senators assailed his decision as in the pocket of special interests, logic-defying, "shameful," "outrageous," "irresponsible," and "unconscionable." Respon ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, US EPA, US Senate (all these topics)

Law of the Sea What will US ratification mean for health of the oceans?	Maywa Montenegro	26 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: legislation, oceans, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Pete and Repeat Sen. Domenici tries again to boost loan guarantees for nuclear power plants		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 9:56 AM on 18 Dec 2007 The multifaceted appropriations bill making its way through the Senate contains language that would raise the limits on loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants. The language was added thanks to tireless nuclear booster Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), who has tried (and so far failed) to raise loan guarantees for nuclear plants by inserting provisions into the energy bil ...
Topics: energy, legislation, news, nuclear power, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Glass Half Full? Senate OKs fuel-economy increase, but drops more ambitious parts of energy bill		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:41 PM on 13 Dec 2007 The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed an energy bill that would raise auto fuel-economy standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020 -- but only after a more ambitious version of the bill ran into a roadblock. The more ambitious version, which the House passed last week, got a thumbs-up from 59 senators -- a handful of Republicans as well as all of the Democrats ...
Topics: legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Stall That and More Landmark energy bill stalls in the Senate		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:25 AM on 07 Dec 2007 Today, Senate Republicans blocked efforts to push through the landmark energy bill that was passed by the House yesterday. To cut off debate on the bill and avoid a filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) needed 60 votes; he got only 53. Republican leaders in the Senate now hope to strip out two key provisions of the bill: a Renewable Portfolio Standard mandating that utilities produ ...
Topics: legislation, news, United States, US Senate (all these topics)

Patty Ache Asbestos legislation watered down, disappointing activists		06 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 4:08 PM on 06 Nov 2007 Public-health advocates who in June praised legislation to ban asbestos now say the version passed by the Senate last month was watered down so significantly that they no longer support it. Thanks in large part to industry lobbying, many products containing cancer-causing asbestos wouldn't be banned under the new version of the bill. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who has labored for years to ge ...
Topics: health, legislation, news, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics)

Out of His League LCV declares Sen. James Inhofe a target for unseating in 2008		10 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:05 PM on 10 Oct 2007 Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe (R) is the first person to make the League of Conservation Voters' "Dirty Dozen" list of congresspeople the group hopes to unseat in 2008. Inhofe is the minority leader on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, despite having called climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people"; he recently urg ...
Topics: elections, James Inhofe, League of Conservation Voters, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

The Age of Ban Senate passes asbestos ban, Democrats want to rid toys of lead		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:38 PM on 05 Oct 2007 Hey, you with the asbestos-contaminated attic: The Senate has unanimously passed a measure to ban importation, manufacture, processing, and distribution of products containing asbestos. Forty other nations have already banned the cancer-causing mineral, which is found in more than 3,000 consumer products in the U.S. Speaking of things that should have happened a long time ago, Democrat ...
Topics: green living, health, legislation, news, parenting, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics)

For Pete's Sake Could Domenici be succeeded by a green builder?		04 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:18 PM on 04 Oct 2007 Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) has announced he won't run for reelection. Could he be replaced by already-declared Democratic candidate Don Wiviott, a builder known for energy-efficient properties? source:� The New York Times From the Archives Dropping the Ball. Times Square New Year's Eve ball goes green. Wait and Sea. Senate may soon vote on U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty. Le ...
Topics: elections, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Paying the Water Bill Senate approves water bill, Bush may veto, Senate may override		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:49 PM on 25 Sep 2007 The Senate has approved a $23 billion water bill, which includes $3.6 billion for wetland and coastal restoration in Louisiana and $2 billion for restoration work in the Everglades. It would also create a new national levee safety program and calls for much-needed outside review of water construction projects undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. Critics of the legislation ...
Topics: legislation, news, politics, US Senate, water conflicts (all these topics)

Now That's an Exit Strategy Sens. Bingaman, Specter introduce industry-backed climate legislation		12 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Now That's an Exit Strategy Sens. Bingaman, Specter introduce industry-backed climate legislation Two U.S. senators have introduced climate legislation that's a bold compromise or a copout, depending whom you ask. The Low Carbon Economy Act, sponsored by Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), would cut current U.S. carbon-dioxide emiss ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Kerry: Utilities must act Letter in the Washington Post	JMG	05 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

The trouble with RPS Mixing up paths and goals	Sean Casten	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

The energy bill After many years of trying, we're moving in the right direction at last	Senator John Kerry	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

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