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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Climate change ideas for On Day One A UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This week marks the twentieth anniversary of NASA Scientist James Hansen's groundbreaking Congressional testimony on global warming, an event that put climate change squarely on the political agenda. In honor of the anniversary, UN Dispatch, On Day One, and Grist are partnering to discuss ideas the next president can adopt to take on climate change. We are joined by a panel of experts who will weigh in on ideas submitted to On Day One by every ...
Topics: climate, energy, James Hansen, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The cowardly lion McCain to skip another crucial climate vote	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Unbelievable. Sen. John McCain -- who just weeks ago said of the Climate Security Act, "I hope it will pass, and I hope the entire Congress will join in supporting it and the President of the United States would sign it" -- now says he won't show up to vote on it. He won't vote against it, mind you. Won't go on record. Won't take a stand. He just won't show. 'I have not been there for a number of votes. The same thing happened in the campaign of ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, jackassery, legislation, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Will you pay or will you go? Renewables score big victory in the Senate	Josh Dorner	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
With today's green energy boom (and over 100,000 existing jobs in the wind and solar industries alone) hanging in the balance, the Senate voted this morning by an overwhelming 88 to 8 margin to attach short-term extensions of key clean energy tax incentives set to expire at the end of this year -- the Production Tax Credit that mostly goes to wind power, the Investment Tax Credit for solar, and other incentives for energy efficient appliances and the like -- to the housi ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives, US Senate (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The subsidy tease, part I Congress needs to stop flirting with the renewable energy industry	Joseph Romm	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- When it comes to relationships, Congress is a big tease. Or so it must seem to the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. Just when they think they're about to go to the altar with the federal government, Congress becomes the runaway bride. Everyone who's anyone acknowledges that energy efficiency and renewable energy a ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, innovation, legislation, politics, renewable energy, tech (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Back online	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Okay, the committee website picked the feed back. It can be accessed here. In the intervening hour or so, a Cardin amendment -- to fund federal agencies involved in L-W enforcement with money raised from the auction -- passed. So did an amendment offered by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to create a bonus system for renewable energy modeled on the bill's existing bonus system for carbon capture, and a Lautenberg amendment offering to authorize the National Academy ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The speaker speaks on the energy bill Nancy Pelosi answers my question about renewables in the energy bill	Brian Beutler	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I and several other journalists spent the morning at an on-the-record breakfast with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) where, armed with my trusty digital voice recorder, I asked her to address last week's rumors about the potential demise of renewable energy in the energy bill. Will the electricity standard and the tax titles be dropped? If not, will the bill be split into parts? Her reaction was ... well, I'd call it slight consternation. She, not surprisingly ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Climate change big picture A great piece in the WaPo	David Roberts	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In Sunday's Washington Post, Steven Mufson has an excellent big-picture look at the effort to fight global warming via legislation. It offers a sense of the scope of the problem: The potential economic impact of meaningful climate legislation -- enough to reduce U.S. emissions by at least 60 percent -- is vast. Automobiles would have to get double their current miles to the gallon. Building codes would have to be tougher, requiring use of more energy-efficient mater ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Did I say no more CTL? I meant just one more	David Roberts	30 May 2007	Gristmill
There's a growing tension between the subsidy-happy proclivities of Congress and its self-imposed mandate to reduce carbon emissions. You just can't spend all the available federal dollars on ethanol and CTL and expect to reduce emissions. Bills like this one, introduced by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), are going to bring that tension to a head: A bill about to be introduced in the Senate would push utilities to generate drastically more of their power -- 15%, comp ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

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