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Lieberman-Warner is a mess
Climate Security Act could be worse than the 2007 energy bill |
biodiversivist |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Last year the Energy Independence and Security Act put into place mandates that will in all likelihood increase GHG emissions. The Lieberman-Warner act (critiqued by Sean here) could turn out to be just as ineffective. From an analysis [PDF] of the Energy Independence and Security Act by the NRDC: ... the requirement for renewable fuels, such as ethanol and biogasoline, will grow from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion gallons in 2022. So far, so good, ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, NRDC, politics (all these topics) |
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Is the World Bank coal-fused?
Coal still has no place in clean development |
Joseph Romm |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| You knew it had to happen: the World Bank now has the same climate sensibility as ... the Kansas House. Scientist Jim Hansen, on the other hand, has requested a meeting with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, arguing for a moratorium on coal plants until carbon capture and storage technology is available. Even Wall Street looks on coal skeptically. Last Friday, the Kansas House failed to override Sebelius' veto of two new plants by only one vote. And the World Bank is con ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, insanity, politics, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Maryland keeps getting greener
State's governor pursuing clean energy and GHG reductions |
Joseph Romm |
07 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has prioritized clean energy policy and aims to reduce the state's energy consumption 15 percent by 2015. In addition, Maryland is a part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities. With those goals topping the governor's agenda, Maryland's Senate chambers ... |
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| Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Maryland, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics) |
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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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'Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change'
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David Roberts |
24 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Here is an absolutely stellar video from Sea Studios productions called "Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change": (via Steve Clemons) |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, politics (all these topics) |
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Nader on the Record
An interview with Ralph Nader about his presidential platform on energy and the environment |
Amanda Griscom Little |
19 Mar 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| This is part of a series of interviews with presidential candidates. Ralph Nader. Photo: Sage Ross He brought you the seat belt. He launched a consumer advocacy empire. He got 2,883,105 votes in the 2000 presidential election, which critics argue helped put George W. Bush in the White House. Ralph Nader has earned fame -- and infamy -- for many d ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08, Ralph Nader (all these topics) |
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ECO:nomics: Presidential energy advisors
Campaign energy wonks clarify candidates' differences on climate change |
David Roberts |
15 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As Adam pointed out, it seems to have become conventional wisdom among media that the presidential candidates' positions on climate change are roughly identical. But the campaigns themselves don't see it that way. That became clear during a panel featuring the candidates' top energy advisors. Obama was represented by Jason Grumet, whose day job is running the Bipartisan Policy Center. The Clinton campaign sent Gene Sperling, senior fellow at both the Council of Fo ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Shhhh!
Bush administration quietly acknowledges climate plan is doable |
Miles Grant |
14 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Hey, did you notice that new analysis the Environmental Protection Agency just put out? The one on the economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? No? None of this ringing a bell? That's just the way the EPA wants it. Like it was putting a scandal-ridden aide out to pasture, the administration quietly released the report on Friday afternoon and has tried to bury the important findings. But while the release may have been stealthy and the presenta ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Compromise vs. strong action
Don't hold your breath on Lieberman-Warner passing in 2008 |
Joseph Romm |
14 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I can't imagine anyone believing we would see 60 Senate votes this year for an unwatered-down climate bill. The center-right folk want big compromises, like a poison-pill safety valve (see below). But Sen. Boxer (D-Calif.) has little motivation to gut her legislation, since next year will probably bring more Senate Democrats and definitely bring a president who wants to take action, rather than one who has done everything in his power to block action and destroy the ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Thought: Control
Waxman and Markey introduce bill to ban new dirty coal plants |
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11 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:09 AM on 11 Mar 2008 House Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have introduced the "Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008," which would do pretty much what it sounds like: prevent new coal plants in the U.S. unless they're built with advanced pollution controls. Says Waxman, "The altemative is senseless -- locking in decades of additional global war ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, Ed Markey, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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Blocking state leadership on global warming
Johnson made a decision that should have belonged to Congress |
Joseph Romm |
09 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Last week, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson published the official explanation of his decision to deny a waiver of preemption for California's program to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles. Robert Sussman, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, has a very good discussion of the misguided reasoning Johnson uses. The bottom line: The role of state programs under a comprehensive climate change framework may be a legitimate subject for deba ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, energy, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics) |
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Dingell to debut House climate bill in April
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David Roberts |
06 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Dingell says he'll release a draft of a House climate change bill for comment and feedback in mid-April (sub rqd). |
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| Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Bush's sleight of hand
Renewable energy subterfuge |
Joseph Romm |
05 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest essay by Daniel J. Weiss and Nick Kong. It was originally published on the Center for American Progress website. ----- Photo: whitehouse.gov 'Watch what we do, not we say,' Attorney General John N. Mitchell accurately warned at the dawn of the Nixon administration. This could also be a fitting epitaph for President Bush's energy policies. Despite frequent claims of support for renewable energy over the years, the record show ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Climate policy, auctions, and economic justice
The core progressive issue in the fight over climate legislation |
David Roberts |
03 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following post was originally published on The Nation's guest blog, Passing Through, where I was in residence throughout February. It is a rudimentary introduction to cap-and-trade and the question of allocating permits, an argument (or three) in favor of auctioning permits, and a review of the political state of play around the question. The point is to get people up to speed on the crucial debate over permit auctions, which should be a central focal point for ... |
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| Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Letter in TAP
Green advocates urged to be reasonable |
David Roberts |
02 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In last month's print edition of The American Prospect, Chris Mooney had an article called "This will mean the world to us," about what a new president and Congress could and should do on climate change. The editors asked me to write a letter in response, which is in this month's issue. It's semi-on the web here, but I think you have to be a subscriber to read it. Here's the full, pre-edited version: Dear editor, In his otherwise astute survey of the pol ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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'How not to run for vice president'
VP hopeful Pawlenty fails energy/climate conservative litmus test |
Joseph Romm |
29 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Just in case you thought conservatives might be warming up to climate action and clean energy with the impending nomination of John McCain, uber-conservative columnist Bob Novak explains otherwise in a column titled 'How Not to Run for Vice President.' As a nonconservative, I know I can't do justice to Novak's 'logic' by summarizing it, and I suspect many readers would think I was taking his argument out of context, since it seems so ... well ... judge for yours ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Cap-and-caulk
How smart climate policy can cut our energy costs |
Alan Durning |
28 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| True confessions: I love weatherstripping. And programmable thermostats. And insulation -- all kinds. Oh, and efficient shower heads with 'Navy shower' shut-off valves. And high-efficiency appliances. And waste-water heat recovery systems. You get the idea: I actually enjoy the process of making buildings more energy wise -- enjoy as in, 'Yippee, it's Saturday! Where's my caulk gun?' So today's topic is especially near to my heart: the role in climate policy of low-inco ... |
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| Topics: cap-and-dividend, climate, energy, environmental justice, politics (all these topics) |
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Why economic analysis of Lieberman-Warner will be flawed
Global warming solution studies overestimate costs, underestimate benefits |
Joseph Romm |
27 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Dan Weiss, the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress, has written an excellent piece on why we can expect a series of flawed economic analyses of the Lieberman Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) in the coming months: Many of these studies will likely predict that the reductions of greenhouse gases required by the cap-and-trade system will lead to huge hikes in electric rates, reductions in jobs, and all sorts of other economic ha ... |
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| Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Is Obama's climate plan missing something?
The Washington Post lamely attacks Obama's climate ideas |
Joseph Romm |
27 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby, in an absurdly titled column, 'Obama's Missing Ideas,' proves once again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Obama's ideas about climate solutions are probably the very last place one can find something missing. Obama has a terrific climate plan, full of winning ideas, as I have blogged many times. Yet Mallaby claims that 'good ideas are actually quite scarce. Just take a look at climate change.' Mallaby's 'case' is based ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Wasting time
A safety valve in Lieberman-Warner is senseless |
Joseph Romm |
23 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I see no point whatsoever in passing a climate bill this year that includes a safety valve. I have blogged on this before, but it bears repeating as we appear to be getting to the endgame negotiations in the Senate on the Lieberman-Warner bill. Bottom line: If you want to get a 60% to 80% greenhouse gas cut in four decades, you just can't waste time with safety valves. We need to get to a price of $30 to $40 a ton for carbon dioxide as soon as possible -- and if ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Tasty hatin'
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David Roberts |
22 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| All you Lieberman-Warner haters will not want to miss David Sassoon's "The 10 Dominoes Toppling Lieberman-Warner." |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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McCain vs. Hillary vs. Obama vs. Bingaman, Bernie, and Boxer
What makes a good climate change plan? |
Adam Stein |
21 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| 'Tis the season for climate plan meta-analysis. I get asked a lot about the presidential candidates' environmental bona fides, which has led me to put together the following long, dense, and absolutely riveting primer on what to look for in a good climate change plan. These principles apply to cap-and-trade style programs, because that's what all the presidential candidates are proposing. 1. Go deep The 'cap' part of cap-and-trade refers to the emissions level manda ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Presidential campaign footprints under scrutiny
Confused Washington Times disses McCain and Obama on lack of carbon offsets |
Joseph Romm |
20 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In a bizarre twist, the conservative Washington Times, which would normally be critical of fuzzy environmental strategies like carbon offsets, is actually attacking the candidates for not offsetting all their campaign emissions. Opening with an absurd headline, 'Green crusades lot of talk,' the Times writes: Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have called for strict mandatory limits to control greenhouse gases but they aren't leading by example -- each has failed ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, carbon offsets, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Weasel of the week
Tim Kaine burns national ambitions in coal furnace |
Glenn Hurowitz |
19 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Virginia's Democratic governor Tim Kaine, often mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee, seems to be flushing his ambitions for national office down the toilet by actively working to build yet another coal-fired power plant for one of his biggest campaign donors. Tim Kaine. Photo: virginia.gov Kaine has tried to present himself as a green, forward-thinking governor by proposing a 'Virginia Energy Plan' he claimed would reduce greenhouse-gas emis ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia (all these topics) |
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Tax-and-rebate vs. auction-and-rebate
The major differences between carbon pricing plans are political |
Gar Lipow |
19 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Putting a price on carbon is probably an unavoidable part of phasing out fossil fuels to fight global warming and air pollution. For years, Peter Barnes has advocated a brilliant means of mitigating many of the harmful economic side effects: take the revenue from carbon taxes or auctions and rebate it back to the people, dividing it equally among each citizen. Barnes advocates doing this via an auctioned permit system. However,the same thing could be done with a car ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics) |
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