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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
I recently wrote a short piece for Seed about the Law of the Sea -- a piece of legislation that has been held up in the US Senate for the past 25 years, and which, if ratified, could have a major impact on ocean health.The treaty -- which was given a thumbs-up in October by the US Foreign Relations Committee and now awaits ratification in the Senate -- declares most of earth's vast ocean floor to be the "common heritage of mankind," placing it under UN ...
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
John Kerry had a letter in today's Washington Post: Utilities Must Do Their Part To Fight Climate Change Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A14 In his June 22 op-ed, 'An Apollo Program for Climate Change,' David Sokol, the chief executive of a major electric utility, rightly invoked the vision of President John F. Kennedy in calling for an ambitious program to fight climate change. But he wrongly argued that American taxpayers alone should have to dig into their pockets (through a ...
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
RPS legislation (which seems to have recently died in the Senate, although could conceivably be reintroduced on amendment) is well-intended, but poorly constructed. Roll the clock back 100 years, and assume you're the legislator tasked with figuring out how to get the population to go West. Which do you choose: (a) the Homestead Act, giving people land as soon as they prove that they can get there and cultivate it, or (b) a tax rebate to anyone who hitches five white ...
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
I'm a bit bleary eyed after midnight votes, and about to do an event in Boston on the energy fight, but I wanted to come back here to Gristmill to tell you how good it feels to have gotten something good done in the Senate instead of just stopping bad things from happening. A year ago I was battling to stop drilling in ANWR. Last night, finally -- after years of battling and five years after we introduced the Kerry-McCain legislation to raise fuel efficiency s ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Reid isn't done yet Senate Dems still fighting for energy package	David Roberts	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Disappointed about the half-victory in the Senate yesterday? Don't give up hope yet. Majority leader Harry Reid's still got some fight in him (from CongressNow, sub. rqd.): Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this afternoon said he will revive the energy tax package that was defeated amid Republican opposition this week, saying he was confident he could muster the votes necessary to pass the measure at a later date. 'We're going to figure out how to bring ...
Topics: energy, Harry Reid, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase		22 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase First, the good news: the U.S. Senate has passed an energy bill containing the first significant fuel-economy increase in years. The bill requires cars and light trucks to get an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, up from the current 22.2 mpg for l ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, Harry Reid, legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Senate: yes to CAFE boost, no to oil taxes One small step forward, one step, uh, sideways	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
You may have heard that today the Senate reached a compromise on CAFE: they will keep the 35mpg-by-2020 requirement, but drop the 4%-every-year-thereafter requirement. The loophole for SUVs will be closed. (Bizarrely, newly minted environmentalist Ted Stevens [R-Alaska] was instrumental in keeping the amendment alive.) This is good news, in a symbolic sort of way (suffice to say, when there are working vehicles on the road that get 100mpg, we shouldn't be satisfied wi ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Crunch time Dirty energy lobbyists are out in force	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Argh:Senate Democrats yesterday were scrambling to prevent the sweeping energy overhaul bill, a top domestic priority, from crumbling amid growing regional divisions within their party and Republican concerns.'The moment of truth on this energy bill is coming very shortly,' Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said. Also, argh: Three powerful lobbying forces -- automakers, electric utilities and the coal industry -- are confounding Democrats' efforts to forge a less-polluti ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Oil lobby resorts to open extortion Hardly new, but brazen nonetheless	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Senate Democrats want to pay for renewables with taxes and royalties on oil companies. This pressure is causing the oil lobby to threaten higher gasoline prices: Bill Holbrook, communications director for the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, told ABC News that there are conflicting signals about what path the nation will take coming from both President Bush and lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The president is calling for a 20 percent reduction on gasol ...
Topics: Congress, energy, oil, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

Green-collar jobs in Congress A new amendment from Sanders and Clinton	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Over at The Hill's Congress Blog, Sen. Bernie Sanders touts his green-collar jobs amendment to the energy bill, which will come up for debate this week. (Sen. Clinton also put her name on it.) Great to see this issue getting attention. See, again: Van Jones.
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

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