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More reasons to love Lieberman-Warner
CAP article says it promotes the transition to clean energy |
Joseph Romm |
02 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A new article by the Center for American Progress makes clear that the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act [PDF], S. 2191, would be a boon to affordable, job-creating renewable energy. The article, by CAP's Daniel J. Weiss and Alexandra Kougentakis, explains how the bill would ... ... make significant reductions in the carbon dioxide pollution that causes global warming as well as turbo charge investments in clean energy technologies such as wind, solar, and geotherma ... |
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| Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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The subsidy tease, part II
Renewable energy incentives were stripped from the energy bill; what should be done next? |
Joseph Romm |
14 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- The energy bill passed by Congress last December originally contained a beneficial, if temporary, set of financial incentives to spur the growth of renewable energy technologies in the United States. The bill included a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) that would require states to acquire part of their electric power from r ... |
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CNBC energy bill debate with Dan Weiss
The economic benefits of going green |
Joseph Romm |
12 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Earlier this week, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, Dan Weiss, went on CNBC to discuss 'the economic benefits of going green' as it relates to the energy bill currently in Congress. Weiss, a strong advocate of the clean energy provisions, went head to head with Max Schultz of the Manhattan Institute, whose sole platform was costs. The unjustifiably controversial renewable portfolio standard was the heart of the ... |
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