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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bingaman gets it right Smart ideas for post Lieberman-Warner climate policy	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Lieberman-Warner had many, many, many, many, many problems. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has just done a bit of musing ($ub. req'd) on what the next effort ought to look like; he has done a rather eloquent job outlining the problems with Lieberman-Warner and suggesting what lessons we ought to take from its failure as we advance to a better model. From Restructuring Today: The Lieberman-Warner bill didn't come close to making it through the Senate and climate legisla ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, 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
George Voinovich. There's an important story in yesterday's edition of E&E (as always, $ub. req'd) about two alternatives to Lieberman-Warner that have recently been floated in the Senate. One comes from Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) and the other -- not so much a bill as a 'set of principles' -- from a coalition of the nation's biggest and dirtiest coal companies. Together they serve as an excellent primer on the conservative movement's latest approac ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)