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Tracking Lieberman-Warner First amendments	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Larry Craig amendment No. 24 (out of over 40!) to kill offramp the bill without China's support failed: 8 yeas, 11 nays. Bernard Sanders' amendment No. 2 to create incentives for domestic green-tech industries and manufacturing passed: 12 yeas, 7 nays. (Sen. George Voinovich [R-Ohio], who opposes the bill, voted for the amendment.)
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Boxer's opening statement	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Senators' opening statements are almost always fairly predictable, and, save for Sanders' there were no surprises today. But chair Boxer's opening statement is reprinted below the fold. My colleagues: I express to you my deep gratitude that we have gotten to this day with a very strong bi-partisan bill that, by any standard of what is possible, passes the test with flying colors. For that, I once again thank from the bottom of my heart, Senators Lieberman and Warne ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Winning over the environmentalists?	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
To get this thing through today, Lieberman can't afford to lose the support of more than one Democrat. At the end of the subcommittee process, after watching almost all of his amendments killed, Bernie Sanders voted against the bill. His no vote was offset, though, by an affirmative vote by Sen. John Warner (R-Va.). Today, that may change. During his opening statements, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who has a strong environmental record, gushed over ACSA, and Sand ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner The mark-up zoo	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
David is correct here. The Republicans desperately want to turn this markup session into a long, boring circus. They've come armed with about 150 amendments, dozens of which will come to a vote, almost all of which will be defeated. Here, via Hill Heat, are just a few doozies: Vitter proposed 14 amendments: Amendments 1 and 5 allow offshore and on-land natural gas drilling, respectively Amendments 2 and 3 require studies on industry displacement Amendment 4 allow ...
Topics: politics, legislation, climate, energy (all these topics)

Let's price carbon Conservatives still don't seem to get global warming	Ryan Avent	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Many political observers -- those, at least, not wholly gutted by cynicism after eight years of criminally negligent Republican leadership -- wonder when public concern over global warming will prompt a serious, thoughtful conservative response. Those hoping for real solutions from the GOP political leadership may have a long time to wait, but some conservative thinkers are beginning to wrestle with warming in an intellectually honest, if mistaken, manner. Over at The ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics)

The NYT's Tom Friedman is wrong We are not yet the 'people we have been waiting for' to solve 'global weirding'	Joseph Romm	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In general, I am a big fan of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, one of the few national columnists who writes regularly and intelligently on energy and climate matters. But his recent column, 'The People We Have Been Waiting For,' goes off track -- twice. First, he writes: ... sweet-sounding 'global warming' doesn't really capture what's likely to happen. I prefer the term 'global weirding,' coined by Hunter Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, tech (all these topics)

If it is to be war ... Senate Republicans vow to filibuster energy bill	David Roberts	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The E&E headline sums it up: "Senate GOP plots 'war' over House energy plan" (sub rqd). It sounds like Pelosi has done her job, restoring to the bill most of the provisions greens have been stumping for, including the RES and removal of some tax breaks from the oil industry: House Democratic leaders today said the bill will include a roughly $21 billion tax package aimed at expanding renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives. Of that, roughl ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Lieberman-Warner action already underway Clinton and Sanders introduce amendments to strengthen the bill	David Roberts	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The Lieberman-Warner markup in the Senate Environment Committee starts tomorrow, but already the action is hot and heavy. Word has it that Sen. James Inhofe is going to pull all manner of procedural shenanigans, which will probably slow things up enough to extend the markup into two days. If that doesn't do it, there are also dozens and dozens of amendments to consider. Larry Craig (R-Gayville) and James Inhofe (R-Mongo) have introduced 46 and 52 amendments respectiv ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Hillary Clinton, James Inhofe, legislation, politics (all these topics)

300 ideas in 100 days Presidential Climate Action Project releases new plan for the next president	Joseph Romm	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
How ambitious should the next president be in tackling global warming? A document issued today by a team at the University of Colorado indicates that No. 44 can be, and should be, far more aggressive than any of the candidates has promised so far. The Presidential Climate Action Project -- a two-year effort headquartered at the university -- has released a presidential action agenda that contains more than 300 specific changes in federal policies, programs and sta ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Red List not enough Experts push for an intergovernmental biodiversity panel	Maywa Montenegro	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
For this enviro, Christmas is shaping up pretty nicely this year. Today, as post-Kyoto discussions commence in Bali, Australia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, sweeping aside decades of Howard's curmudgeonly climate skepticism. Another unexpected gift came last month, when a group of 80 experts convened in France to mull over the future of biodiversity. Their consensus? That we need to establish a new intergovernmental panel -- akin to the IPCC -- to begin aggressiv ...
Topics: international politics, climate, energy, biodiversity, politics (all these topics)

Rational expectations Winning the battle in Bali, and then winning the war	Tom Athanasiou	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Since COP13 / MOP3 -- hereafter 'Bali' -- has begun, I thought I'd send a brief note on expectations and strategy. Brief because there's too much to say, so I shouldn't try. Besides, I'll try to post again in a few days. Here's the thing: Bali is freighted with terrific expectations, which are entirely appropriate given the state of the science. We now 'know,' insofar as we can know these things, that we've got to do everything to hold total temperature increa ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

What will we look like in 2050? America's climate and energy future	Joseph Romm	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. A few weeks ago, one of the presidential candidates' advisors challenged a group of climate leaders to describe America's future. His challenge triggered a flurry of e-mails as we attempted to articulate a vision. We talked about carbon caps and price signals and new investments in R&D. That's fine, the advisor responded, but what it the v ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

White House renews energy bill veto threat	David Roberts	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The White House just sent this letter (PDF) to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, renewing its threat to veto any bill that doesn't follow exactly the (absurd) guidelines it laid out in its last letter.
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics (all these topics)

Celebrate good times, come on! No, seriously. Greens need to learn how to celebrate their friends and their movement	David Roberts	02 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I've run into a lot of sentiment along the lines of this comment thread -- harumphing about how weak and insufficient the impending energy bill is -- and it seems crazy and wrongheaded to me. I urge you to check out this post by Josh Dorner on the post-2000 history of energy bill negotiations. Remember what it's been like. Since I started at Grist, I've been writing about a Republican president and Congress trying over and over again to pass energy legislation ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Energy bill back on track? Pelosi says bill up for vote next week will contain CAFE, RFS, and RES	David Roberts	01 Dec 2007	Gristmill
For days I've been hearing that some kind of deal is imminent on the energy bill. There was talk that the Renewable Energy Standard (RES) was going to get dropped, perhaps to be attached to some other bill, and that the production tax credit (PTC) for wind and solar was going overboard, along with rescinding subsidies to oil and gas companies. That would have left a pretty sad bill, notable mainly for a boost in CAFE and enormous subsidies to ethanol. Anyway, some ...
Topics: energy, climate, legislation, politics, Nancy Pelosi (all these topics)

Rep. Markey on the energy bill	David Roberts	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: politics, legislation, climate, energy, Ed Markey (all these topics)

Biden his time Joe Biden rolls out climate and energy plan	Brian Beutler	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Unless the Democrats manage to blow the '08 elections, or some other calamity strikes, a president who is ready to seriously confront the climate crisis will be sworn into office in January 2009. Following in the footsteps of other Democratic candidates, Joe Biden unveiled his climate and energy plan on November 20, 2007. Biden's plan looks a little bit generic compared with the offerings we've seen from Edwards, Dodd, Richardson, Obama, and most recently, Hillary C ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, Joe Biden, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Bali eve Delegates of all stripes prepare for the trip to Bali	Youth Movement	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Post by Kelly Blynn, Step It Up 2007 Around the world, an estimated 10,000 bureaucrats, ministers, activists, climate skeptics, industry lobbyists, and students are packing their bags and making last-minute preparations for their descent upon the small Indonesian island of Bali, for two weeks of hashing it out on what the world's going to do next on the issue of global warming. Anyone who has anything (good or bad) to do with this problem will be there -- w ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, Indonesia, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Somebody didn't get the environment vs. economy memo Over 150 companies worldwide sign climate petition in advance of Bali	David Roberts	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
More than 150 companies worldwide, representing some $4 trillion in market valuation, have signed the Bali Communiqu�: As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting: The economic and geopolitical costs of unabated climate change could be very severe and globally disruptive. All countries and economies will be affected, but it will be the poorest countries that will su ...
Topics: Bali 07, business, climate, economy, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

A political issue Partisan debate on climate change vs. unity	David Roberts	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A couple nights ago I spoke briefly and rather aimlessly at the first Seattle EcoTuesday. I mentioned that the leading Democratic candidates all have detailed, creditable climate and energy plans, and the leading Republican candidates don't. Afterward, a guy pulled me aside to scold me for "making it a political issue." It's something I hear a lot, and I remain utterly baffled by it. The assumption seems to be that politics is bad and that the ideal state w ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

New version of Lieberman-Warner circulating	David Roberts	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Via EE News (sub rqd), there's a new version of the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill circulating: An aide to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a lead co-author of the bill, said one of the biggest changes involves an upstream cap placed on the heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions that come from natural gas processors. With the new bills natural gas section, more than 80 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that come from the U.S. economy will be covered und ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, natural gas, politics (all these topics)

Problem solved? U.S. emissions go down!	Andrew Dessler	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The White House issued a press release yesterday about the report (PDF) by the Energy Information Administration that U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions for 2006 were 1.5 percent below the 2005 level. Here is the text of the press release: STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT I was pleased to receive the Energy Information Administration's final report today, which includes U.S. greenhouse gas emissions for 2006. The final report shows that emissions declined 1.5 percent from ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, United States (all these topics)

The job-creating answer to global warming A new report lays a road map for creating green jobs while fighting the climate crisis	Joseph Romm	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A major new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) provides a detailed roadmap for avoiding catastrophic global warming and restoring our energy security, while maintaining economic development. The report, 'Capturing the Energy Opportunity: Creating a Low Carbon Economy,' is by CAP's John Podesta, Kitt Batten, and Todd Stern. It is well worth reading, and I say that not because I am a senior fellow at CAP, but because the 88-page report lays out th ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, green jobs, politics (all these topics)

Forum video, now with comments Tell us what you think about the presidential forum	David Roberts	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The video from Grist's presidential forum on climate is now available on a page that accepts comments. So go comment! One thing to watch for: check out what Hillary says at 6:33, and compare to what Edwards says at around 35:00. Are they right?
Topics: climate, Dennis Kucinich, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The GOP and climate One small step for Republicans on climate, but giant leaps still needed	Brian Beutler	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I've noticed recently that some conservatives -- particularly Andrew Sullivan -- have offered kind words to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being the only presidential candidate in the Republican field to take the climate change issue seriously. It's difficult to know what to make of this. On the one hand, the country would be in a much better position to seriously address the crisis if John McCain's environmental views fell in the mainstream of his party, instead of ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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