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Commerce clause The House Energy and Commerce Committee releases draft of potential climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and ranking member Rick Boucher (D-Va.) released a 'discussion draft' of their long-awaited climate change legislation today. 'This draft is the culmination of nearly two years of intensive work on climate change by the Committee and marks an important step in our ongoing efforts to address this increasingly serious problem,' wrote Dingell and Boucher in a memo to fellow committee members [PDF] today. 'Poli ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Update on House action House passes minor environment-related bills and works a bit on climate	Kate Sheppard	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The House got down to some business on Thursday, working to cross a few things off its list before time runs out on the 110th Congress. It passed the Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act, which would curb speculation in the energy-futures markets. The bill was approved by a vote of 283 to 133, and it now heads to the Senate. The House also passed the No Child Left Inside Act, a bill to improve and expand environmental education. Sponsored by ...
Topics: legislation, carbon trading, carbon tax, Congress, climate, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

What about Bob? Sen. Robert Menendez chats with Grist about climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Robert Menendez. In the Senate debate over the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act last month, Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) stood out as one of the most vocal advocates for making polluters pay to emit greenhouse gases rather than giving them free carbon credits. He also spoke up about the need to spend more on clean technology and help developing countries adapt to climate shifts. Menendez floated a handful of proposed amendments to the climate le ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, interview, legislation, Muckraker, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Hill heap A weekly roundup of greenish news from the capitol	Kate Sheppard	13 Jul 2008	Gristmill
According to a new EPA analysis, the 'value of a statistical life' is now worth $6.9 million, which is nearly $1 million less than it was five years ago. This is important politically because when government agencies create regulations about things like air pollution, they use this statistical value to weigh the costs against the benefits of a proposed rule. Explains the AP, 'Consider, for example, a hypothetical regulation that costs $18 billion to enforce but will p ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Summit of its parts Bush administration, other G8 leaders agree to halve emissions by 2050	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today at the G8 summit, which began yesterday in Hokkaido, Japan, world leaders reached a landmark deal: agreeing to cut emissions in half by 2050. The leaders agreed to 'seriously consider' this goal last year, and six of the eight leaders have been trying desperately to get George Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- who continued to resist mandatory cuts as of Monday -- on board. That is, until a breakthrough today. Well, sort of: The Bush admi ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Sally 4th Sierra Club prompts voters to call legislators about energy bills over the holiday weekend	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Sierra Club began running radio ads this week in six states whose U.S. senators are key votes for energy legislation. Though both Republicans and Democrats were hoping to have accomplished something so they could go home for the holiday and claim victory, Congress went into recess for the 4th of July holiday this week in a deadlock over energy policy. Sierra Club's ads are intended to prompt voters to call their senators about two pieces of legislation: the Co ...
Topics: climate, Congress, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Hill heap A weekly roundup of greenish news from the Capitol	Kate Sheppard	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Some political news debris from this week: The League of Conservation Voters announced today that they've created the first green bundling site. This allows folks to donate en masse to green candidates around the country. LCV will direct the funds to the candidates it will support this year in Senate and House races. Just off his big Everglades restoration deal, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist hosted a conference on climate change. Crist's friend and Californi ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

House party Yet another climate bill introduced in the House; greens applaud	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Since climate change legislation failed to gather steam in the Senate this month, all eyes are now on the House. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) has been promising a bill for months. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, put out an ambitious bill in early June. Today, Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) added their own legislatio ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Oh say can you CCS? Boucher and Upton introduce bipartisan legislation to invest in carbon sequestration technology	Kate Sheppard	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and ranking minority member Fred Upton (R-Mich.) introduced industry-backed legislation on Wednesday to invest billions of dollars in carbon capture-and-sequestration (CCS) technology. The bill [PDF] is intended to 'accelerate the development and early deployment of systems for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel electric generation facilities.' It would create ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Dingell dangle Dingell promises climate bill friendlier to manufacturers	Kate Sheppard	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) has been saying for months now that a climate bill from his committee is on the way. Yesterday he talked about his pending legislation to industry folks, promising it would be friendlier to their interests than the Senate bill that failed last week: Dingell told the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association, the auto supplier trade association, at a luncheon on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the cl ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

So, what now? What we learned from the stymied Climate Security Act, and what comes next	Kate Sheppard	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
After months of engine-revving, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act sputtered to a halt in the Senate last week. Now attention has turned to what was learned -- or wasn't -- and how things might play out the next time a climate bill makes it this far. Despite what looked from the outside like an unproductive and anticlimactic week of grandstanding and delays, the bill's sponsors emerged from the experience claiming sunny optimism about the future. 'It ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

In the clearing stands a Boxer Boxer op-ed argues the Climate Security Act vote was a big step forward	Kate Sheppard	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wrote an op-ed in today's San Jose Mercury News on the failed Climate Security Act that she championed in the Senate. In it, she argues that last week's vote was an important advancement. '[O]ur strong vote proves that we are moving in the right direction,' she writes. She also notes that other landmark environmental laws took quite a bit of time to pass: Our generation has been handed a tremendou ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Letter it all out Swing-vote Democrats explain why they oppose the Climate Security Act	Kate Sheppard	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
On Friday, 10 Democratic senators wrote a letter [PDF] to Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) outlining the reasons why they would not have voted in favor of the Climate Security Act. Democratic leaders pulled the bill from the floor last week after it failed to muster enough votes to move forward. The senators who signed the letter are from key energy-producing and manufacturing states, and argue that the bill would impact their const ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Special interested Top Senate recipients of fossil-fuel money behind climate-bill stall tactics	Kate Sheppard	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The good folks over at Muckety.com (maybe we're long-lost cousins ...) put together an awesome interactive map detailing the connections between the fossil-fuel industries and some of the folks behind the death of climate legislation in the Senate this week. Check it out: muckMapWidth='645'; muckMapHeight='500'; muckMapCtx='http://www.muckety.com/Java'; muckMapProps={restore:'373C5F82BB5B7B482452879A36FA3E0C.map',autoGroup:'7,11'}; Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Shenanigans in the House Republicans try to stoke Dem discord on climate legislation in the House	Kate Sheppard	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amidst the chaos in the Senate over climate legislation, Rep. Ed Markey introduced his climate legislation in the House on Thursday. House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio), hoping to take advantage of apparent disarray within the Democratic Party, has dared Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to push Markey's bill to the floor. He wrote a letter (PDF) to the speaker calling the bill 'reckless and inappropriate,' but urging her to take it to the floor in hopes o ...
Topics: climate, Ed Markey, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

An inhospitable climate Climate Security Act dies, failing to muster enough votes to move forward	Kate Sheppard	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Senate held a cloture vote this morning to bring to a close debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, a vote that would have allowed the amendment process to begin. After four days of conversation and delays, the bill died, failing to reach the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture by a vote of 48-36. Unable to move forward, Democratic leadership yanked the bill from the floor. In a press conference following the vote, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

For whatever it's worth A list of strengthening amendments to the climate bill that will probably never be introduced	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In all likelihood, these will never be formally introduced on the Senate floor, but here's a list of the strengthening amendments to the Climate Security Act that various senators have floated:Renewable Electricity Standard, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): This amendment would require that states generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Scientific Review, John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine): ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Senate all before GOP leaders resort to high jinks to stall climate bill	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican leaders essentially shut down the Senate Wednesday during what was supposed to be a time of debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, forcing clerks to read the entire 492-page bill aloud. Republicans said the maneuver -- which sucked up nine hours -- was a protest against the Democratic majority's slow pace in considering President Bush's judicial nominations. By the time the reading wrapped up near 10 p.m. last night, Majority Lead ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Stalled Will the Senate ever get to constructive (or destructive) debate on climate bill?	Kate Sheppard	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has said he won't allow floor debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act to extend beyond next week, according to an article in E&E Daily ($ub. req'd) today. 'If we don't finish it next week, then it means something has gone wrong,' he's quoted as saying. But at an earlier press conference, he told reporters, 'I want to be patient and try to get as much done as soon as we can. If we arrive at a point where w ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Delay, delay Senate GOP delays climate debate still further by forcing clerk to read Boxer amendment	Kate Sheppard	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Today in Senate action on the Climate Security Act, Republicans are forcing the clerk to read the entirety of the Boxer substitute amendment [PDF], claiming they haven't had enough time to read it yet. It's 157 pages long. Boxer, of course, protested, but her appeal was rejected. The clerk's been reading for an hour already. Oh wait, they had to switch clerks because the first one got tired ... Wait, now they're on to a third clerk ... UPDATE: Apparently they' ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Creeping toward productive conversation Senate begins debate on Lieberman-Warner climate bill -- sort of	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
After last night's cloture vote, Senate Republicans asked for 30 hours before legislatively productive debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act could begin. That means they spent all of today kibitzing about climate legislation without any progress toward amending or voting. Joe Romm has been live-blogging all day over on Climate Progress, and I've also been following the action so you don't have to (you'll thank me). Here's the top CSA news of the day, ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Who's protecting us from the gays? Conservative Christian group outraged that Congress is distracted by climate change	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In today's daily action alert from the Family Research Council, President Tony Perkins bemoans the fact that the Senate is wasting time talking about climate change when the gays are still running around getting married willy-nilly: Now, fresh off a holiday weekend in which most families paid $4 a gallon to drive to neighborhood barbecues, American patience has worn thin. Imagine the frustration this week, as Congress returned to work -- not on judges, marriage, or ...
Topics: climate, insanity, legislation, Muckraker, politics, religion and spirituality, US Senate (all these topics)

A taste of the fight ahead GOP circulating at least 90 weakening amendments to Climate Security Act	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Senate Republicans are already circulating at least 90 amendments that would weaken the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. Here's a complete list of those we know about already, including measures that would add nuclear subsidies, lower emissions targets, and introduce a safety valve. And fight is only just beginning ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US Senate (all these topics)

Rallying for the Climate Security Act Boxer and friends rally in park for climate bill	Kate Sheppard	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) hosted a press conference in a park outside the Capitol this afternoon to rally support for the Climate Security Act. Standing on a podium alongside other senators as well as reps from several green groups, religious organizations, labor unions, and businesses, Boxer called the bill 'long overdue.' Lieberman noted that climate change is 'another one of those challenges where the people are way a ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

It's nukes to me Climate-bill sponsors talk about nukes and wooing McCain	Kate Sheppard	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Before this evening's cloture vote on the motion to proceed, the sponsors of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act held a press conference, mostly repeating things we've already heard from them. Two interesting topics came up, though: McCain and nukes. And, of course, McCain on nukes. John Warner (R-Va.) took the opportunity to tout nuclear power and the amendment he and Lieberman have put together that would insert explicit support for the industry into the bi ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

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