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The Bali is in our court US reps to present unfinished energy bill to UNFCCC	Youth Movement	09 Dec 2007	Gristmill
When a few members of U.S. Congress come to Bali next week to meet with delegations from all round the world, they'll have something in hand: a first step in the direction of climate change legislation from the U.S.35mpg fuel economy standards and 15% renewable energy requirements from utilities may not seem like all that much, but for the rest of the world's leaders, who have been holding their collective breath, it's a twitch of life from a government long considere ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The Harkin Steak Fry candidate chart Candidates reveal their priorities	Ken Ward	08 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The difficulty with assessing candidates by how they address climate change is that policy statements and tailored speeches give little insight into the relative importance each candidate places on global warming as compared to other issues. It is particularly difficult to distinguish between Democratic candidates, who employ an almost identical language of urgency when addressing environmentalists. Tom Harkin, senior Senator from Iowa, hosts an annual barbecue. T ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

And now a word from their sponsors Industry groups lobby against climate legislation	David Roberts	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
If you want to get some sense of what Lieberman-Warner -- or any piece of climate legislation -- is in for when it hits the floor of the Senate, have a look at what its opponents are saying. Below are three letters to the Senate Environment Committee, from the Chamber of Commerce, the National Mining Association, and a front group called the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth. You'll see the message that's going to be deployed against Democrats in Congress and ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Cloture vote fails in Senate Reid will have to decide whether to trim back the bill to get it through	David Roberts	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
As expected, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held a cloture vote this morning, trying to force a vote on the energy bill. It failed 53-42. There isn't much time left this session. Reid has two choices: one, he could follow Pelosi's bold lead, keep the entire package together, and force Republicans to actually filibuster it -- find out if corn-state legislators want to vote against an RFS. Find out if the Republican Party wants to go on record opposing the first boo ...
Topics: politics, legislation, climate, energy (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade through musical chairs A quick, easy-to-follow introduction to the basics of cap-and-trade legislation	David Roberts	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Holmes Hummel, a Stanford PhD and Congressional Science Fellow for Rep. Jay Inslee, has put together two PowerPoint presentations, one brief, one longer. She says: "These overview pieces are for The Curious & Concerned, a growing number of people who understand the importance of a federal climate policy but are confused by the framework of the current proposals."The slideshows explain cap-and-trade legislation through an analogy with musical chairs, w ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Edwards reacts	Brian Beutler	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
John Edwards is the first leading candidate to respond to the advance of the Lieberman-Warner bill: Addressing global warming is one of the great moral tests of our generation, and it's time for bold action and leadership to address this crisis that threatens the globe. While I'm glad to see that global warming legislation is finally moving in the Senate, unfortunately the Lieberman-Warner bill doesn't go far enough to address the crisis of global warming. We cannot ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Edwards, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The youth are back and badder than ever The real story at Bali	Youth Movement	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In 2005, at the U.N.'s Montreal Climate Negotiations, a ragtag but sizable delegation showed up at the conference, desperate to make sure that the world heard their call for climate action. The event proved to be a formative time for people involved in the youth climate movement, and many date its launch to that time. In a conference notable for acronyms and obscure policy jargon, the youth activism was like a breath of fresh air. While delegates bemoaned th ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

House floor debate on federal Energy Bill	Adam Browning	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Forget live blogging. Watch it live on your computer via C-span.org.
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Supreme preemption Medical device case could impact global warming debate	Guest author	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post written by Sean Siperstein, who maintains the blog Warming Law on behalf of the Community Rights Counsel, a public interest law firm in Washington, DC. Warming Law was launched following the Supreme Court's landmark Massachusetts v. EPA ruling, with a focus on the evolving legal landscape impacting the climate movement. ----- In last week's negotiations over the energy bill, one of the most significant victories for propone ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, legislation, litigation, politics (all these topics)

The good and the bad Why cap-and-trade is preferable to a carbon tax	Clark Williams-Derry	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The Washington Post ran an interesting op-ed in its Think Tank Town section last week, arguing for a carbon tax. The nut graph: The only effective way to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slow global climate change is to make it more expensive to emit carbon dioxide. Unless businesses and consumers pay a price for carbon dioxide, neither will make the investments in technology and changes in energy use needed to dramatically reduce emissions. ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Obama expecting 'serious conversation' about 'drastic steps' on climate change	David Roberts	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
There was -- see if this sounds familiar -- almost nothing about climate or energy in the recent Democratic primary debate hosted by NPR. There was one intriguing tidbit at the end, however, triggered off this question from a listener: Mr. JAMES IRWIN: What do you think the toughest choice you have left to make is? Is it gay marriage, immigration, the war in Iraq? What haven't you made up your mind on yet? And why haven't you? Clinton, Gravel, Dodd, Edwards, an ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Boxer statement	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Barbara Boxer is, of course, glowing: The vote of the Environment and Public Works Committee in favor of the Climate Security Act was a historic moment for our country and for my Committee.For me, it was the greatest legislative accomplishment of my political career of thirty years.Finally, America is taking bold steps to avert the catastrophe that awaits our children and grandchildren if we do nothing.Our bill has two goals ... to fight global warming and to do it in ...
Topics: politics, legislation, climate, energy, Barbara Boxer (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner A roundup of today's action in the Senate Environment Committee	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
It took nine and a half hours of chipping away at a seemingly infinite stream of amendments -- some positive, some poison-pills -- but the Senate Environment and Public Works committee favorably reported Joe Lieberman and John Warner's greenhouse gas bill, America's Climate Security Act, today. The process wasn't easy. Republicans came armed with about 150 amendments, some of which were so toxic and clearly non-passable that it appeared they were simply trying to ob ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner And the vote is ...	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'I now move that S.2192, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007, be reported favorably.' And here's the roll call: 11 Yeahs: Baucus Boxer Cardin Carper Clinton by proxy Klobuchar Lautenberg by proxy Lieberman Sanders by proxy Warner Whitehouse 8 Nays: Alexander Barrasso Bond by proxy Craig Inhofe Isakson Vitter Voinovich A full roundup will be forthcoming.
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner A strengthened role for the EPA ... or not	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Senator Lieberman also opposes Sanders' amendment -- which just failed -- to allow the EPA to strengthen the cap if the law-as-passed proves insufficiently effective.
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Improving the cap... or not	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This is a big one. Sanders No. 4 would make the goal of the bill to reduce emissions by 80 (as opposed to about 70) percent by 2050. As the bill is written, the reductions in Lieberman-Warner (under the cap, and otherwise) don't meet the mark. Sanders says, 'while it is fine that we reach a political agreement here, the scientific community is telling us that the agreement we are reaching here does not do the job that has to be done.' Lieberman, by contrast, says, ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Bags of coal given as party favors Fossil Awards shame obstructionist delegates at Bali talks	Youth Movement	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
You may have heard about the Fossil Awards given at the United Nations Bali climate negotiations. A collaboration between a number of youth delegations and Avaaz.org, the awards are given to nations whose delegates have obstructed progress during the course of the talks. Here's a first-hand account of the first daily Fossil Awards ceremony, when Canada won the infamous prize. Yesterday, Japan managed to win first, second, and third place for threatening to pull out of ...
Topics: Bali 07, Canada, climate, energy, international politics, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Sanders gets smacked down	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Sanders' amendment -- Sanders #3 -- would have required CCS-equipped plants to sequester at least 85 percent of their pollution in order to be eligible for additional free allowances. That's what the bill used to mandate, before it was changed earlier this month. Sanders tried to change it back and was voted down with 13 'nays,' including one from his usual ally Barbara Boxer. Sanders' support of this bill may be irrelevant to its passage through committee. But if ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Today's takeaway: Modest improvements only	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Two amendments introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) -- allowing seaside states to use their pollution allowances to respond to the coastal impacts of climate change -- passed. But before that, Sen. Carper withdrew an amendment to give away allowances 'based on output of electricity instead of historical emissions.' And so the meaty amendments disappear.
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner The problem with 150 amendments	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The Senate convened today at noon, and Republicans raised a stink about it. Why so late? Important business to attend to! It had to do with the 150 amendments that EPW committee Republicans brought with them to the markup hearing. The long and short of it is that, by Senate rules, any senator can object to the continuance of any committee meetings that continue beyond the first four hours that the Senate is in session. If the committee meeting and the floor ses ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Nancy Pelosi is kicking ass House Speaker restores energy bill, puts it on fast track, parries White House veto threat	David Roberts	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Well, there's remarkable stuff going on up on the hill today. Thanks to the persistence of Nancy Pelosi (and others), the energy bill has been almost entirely restored to its original strength -- at least the House version. It now contains: 35mpg CAFE, with some Dingell-appeasing loopholes but nothing that makes it substantially weaker than the Senate-passed version; 15% RPS; RFS, scaled back from 36 billion gallons to 20 (I believe), and with some additiona ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics (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)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner End of C-SPAN coverage	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
It seems like C-SPAN only planned to broadcast the first three hours of the markup session. Either way, their coverage ended, which means that for now, so must mine. It looks very much like this bill will be favorably reported out of committee. Expect more commentary throughout the day.
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner More amendments	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Inhofe amendment No. 13 would require the Commerce Secretary to report annually whether L-W would cost 10,000 automotive jobs in the year to come. It failed. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) amendment No. 1 would cap and ratchet down noncarbon pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Amendment is withdrawn for now.
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Passage inevitable?	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
It sure seemed to me that passage was inevitable, going in. And after I heard Sen. Sanders' new tone, it seemed even more likely that L-W would be passed by the Environment and Public Works committee today. Over at Politico, Ryan Grim points to the first amendment -- the 'offramp' amendment -- which failed 11-8: The full Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works appears poised to pass the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill. The first of more than 180 ...
Topics: politics, legislation, climate, energy (all these topics)

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