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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, ...
Topics: biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, NRDC, politics (all these topics)

Lieberman-Warner: bad idea Greenpeace and FOE call Climate Security Act too limited; too slow	Sean Casten	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
It's time to call the Lieberman-Warner love train back to the station. This is not to say that we don't urgently need to immediately start reducing atmospheric GHG concentrations and get policies in place that price carbon. It is instead simply the observation that as L-W morphs into ever greater complexity, it becomes an ever-worse way to meet that goal. Like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, I rather doubt that L-W will go anywhere close to far enough to cure AGW ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Friends of the Earth, greenhouse-gas emissions, Greenpeace, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Machiavelli meets the Big Apple Ten reasons NYC's congestion pricing plan went belly up	Charles Komanoff	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Tom Twigg Albany strikes again: congestion pricing -- the smartest urban-transportation idea since the subway -- has been buried by the professional morticians of the New York State legislature, led by Chief Ghoul Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. As previously reported, the pricing plan, proposed a year ago by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and subsequently improved by a 17-member state-mandated commission, would have charged an $8 entry fee ...
Topics: legislation, New York, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Kansas coal bill redux	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Once again the Kansas legislature has passed a bill pushing for coal plants, and once again Kansas Gov. Sebelius has vowed to veto it. Kansans should be proud. That's quite an ass-kicker they elected!
Topics: coal, energy, Kansas, legislation, politics, state politics (all these topics)

New York City's congestion pricing plan ...	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
... is dead.
Topics: legislation, New York, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Them's the Brakes Manhattan congestion-pricing plan kicks the bucket		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 07 Apr 2008 Hopes had run high that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious congestion-pricing plan for the Big Apple would move forward, but the measure has died a quiet death. Democratic members of the State Assembly, determining that the measure was overwhelmingly opposed, neglected to even bring it to the Assembly floor, instead shooting it down with a secret vote. The now-dead plan would have cha ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Martin Luther King Jr. and crossing boundaries MLKJr.'s words about Vietnam apply to Iraq and the environment	Jon Rynn	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Forty years ago, writes the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, liberalism's moments seemed to have passed: From the death of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 until the congressional elections of November 1966, liberals were triumphant, and what they did changed the world. Civil rights and voting rights, Medicare and Medicaid, clean air and clean water legislation, Head Start, the Job Corps, and federal aid to schools had their roots in the liberal wave that began to ebb when ...
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Interest in Renewing Renewables Renewed Boosts for renewable energy get another go-round in the Senate		04 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:28 AM on 04 Apr 2008 Wind- and solar-boosting folk are crossing their fingers that new Senate legislation will succeed in extending renewable-energy tax credits set to expire at the end of 2008. The Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act is framed as an economic boon: "If both houses of Congress don't pass a bill and the president doesn't sign it into law soon, we will start to see as ...
Topics: energy, legislation, news, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

The Big Lump gets thumped King Coal's year of rejection by banks, judges, and a lot of other folks	Ted Nace	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Earth Policy Institute just released this revelatory chronology of really sad, horrible, and depressing events in the life of the coal industry since February 2007. What's next -- will Santa be switching to lumps of dirt? Feb. 26, 2007: James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a leading climate scientist, calls for a moratorium on the construction of coal-fired power plants that do not sequester carbon, saying that it makes no sense to build ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, legislation, politics, state politics, US EPA (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)

Joe Barton: Pork lover	Sean Casten	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Joe Barton (R-Texas) spoke to the U.S. Energy Association yesterday and made it clear ($ub req'd) that he's going to do everything he can to block cap-and-trade legislation from coming out of Congress:As the Democrats move to pass climate change legislation this year, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, will be there to fight them, he told the U.S. Energy Assn's annual membership meeting yesterday. As a senior member of the House Energy Committee, that's not a threat to be taken l ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, Congress, dumbassery, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Building green, one city at a time Eager municipalities hopping on board	Katharine Wroth	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In case you haven't noticed, it's officially the Year of Green Building. And while some areas have had eco-standards in place for a while now (helloooooo, D.C.!), the fevah is spreading in cities across the U.S. Take a gander at a few places considering formal green-building guidelines this spring: In a move described as a 'watershed time, a wonderful thing,' Chula Vista, Calif. voted yesterday to approve mandatory green-building standards for homes and business ...
Topics: green building, legislation, local politics, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I think it's a mistake to think that emission trading alone will be helpful in reducing greenhouse emissions to any serious extent. I think it's a mistake to extrapolate from the tremendous success of SO2 and NOx to greenhouse gases. And I think the policy debate inside the Beltway is based on a superficial understanding of the similarities between greenhouse gases and Clean Air Act pollutants.' -- UC-Berkley professor Michael Hanemann ($ub. req'd), who just publishe ...
Topics: California, carbon trading, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, quotables, state politics (all these topics)

Farm subsidies: beyond simplistic outrage Gourmet magazine points the way toward a green and smart farm policy	Tom Philpott	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Thursday's Wall Street Journal, there's a detailed article about the farm-subsidy mess. It can be summarized as follows: 1) the government-engineered ethanol boom has driven up farm-commodity prices; 2) farm incomes are sharply up; yet 3) the government still makes subsidy payments in the billions per year; and thus 4) it's time to cut the subsidies.The logic is impeccable. And surely, payment caps should be much lower and blocked from going to high-income farmers an ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, industrial ag, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The State of Play Washington governor may veto bill restricting toxins in toys		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:21 PM on 27 Mar 2008 Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire may veto legislation that would be the toughest in the nation at making sure toys are free of (or low in) lead, cadmium, phthalates, and other toxins. Even though a slew of amendments exempt certain playthings, from tricycles to pellet guns to sleds, Big Toy officials have warned Gregoire that the bill is still too restrictive, since it doesn't ...
Topics: green living, legislation, news, parenting, politics, state politics, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Let it all hang out National Hanging Out Day on April 19	Erik Hoffner	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Utahns Martha Jensen and her mom Mary hang out several times a year to raise awareness. Photo: Martha Jensen. Here's a great way to mark Earth Day next month. Each year, the grassroots group Project Laundry List promotes the very picturesque observance of National Hanging Out Day, both to raise awareness about the enormous energy benefits of air-drying laundry and also to draw attention to the fact that, amazingly, this practice is severely restr ...
Topics: grassroots activism, green living, legislation, politics (all these topics)

We'll always have Hollywood No American-made car meets China's fuel standards	Joseph Romm	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Toronto Star reported an alarming factoid earlier this month: No gasoline-powered car assembled in North America would meet China's current fuel-efficiency standard. That's mainly because: Currently, their standard is much higher than ours. Their standard is a minimum-allowable efficiency standard rather than a 'fleet-average' standard like ours. Our lame car companies don't make their (relatively few) most efficient vehicles in this country. As for ...
Topics: cars, China, energy, fuel efficiency, international politics, legislation (all these topics)

Climate action opponents: We're doomed For fossil fuel fans, bleak is the new black	Miles Grant	22 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is on a barnstorming tour, holding a series of innocuously-named 'State Climate Dialogues.' While the promotional materials sound forward-looking -- conservation, clean energy, efficient technology -- make no mistake about the purpose of the events. The national chamber is trying to derail the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act or any other legislation that puts a price on greenhouse-gas emissions. How's the tour being received so far? ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, economy, fossil fuels, legislation (all these topics)

Weak brew in Maryland	David Roberts	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Maryland climate bill passes state Senate after being severely weakened: The Global Warming Solutions Act would require a 25 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from Maryland businesses by 2020. But under the amendment approved Thursday, the state's environmental agency would have to get the General Assembly's approval each time it issued rules to cut the pollution....Shari Wilson, the state environment secretary, said the amendment would undermine her agency's ab ...
Topics: legislation, Maryland, politics, state politics (all these topics)

She's Got a Feeling You're Not in Kansas Anymore Bill to allow new dirty coal plant vetoed by Kansas governor		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 21 Mar 2008 Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed a bill that would have allowed a new two-unit coal plant to be built in her state. The legislation would have overturned an October decision by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to deny Sunflower Electric a coal-plant permit on the basis of greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill Sebelius kicked to the cu ...
Topics: coal, energy, heroes, Kansas, legislation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

'Paign, Management Industry launches campaign against Lieberman-Warner climate bill		20 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:05 AM on 20 Mar 2008 Energy industry and business trade groups have launched a concerted campaign against the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. The bill, which would establish a cap-and-trade system to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, is much less stringent than some other climate bills in Congress, but Lieberman-Warner is so far the only one to pass out of committee; it's scheduled for a Senate vo ...
Topics: business, climate, dumbassery , legislation, news (all these topics)

Why a climate bill in 2008? Part III The world is waiting for us to lead the way	Tony Kreindler	18 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the third in a series on why we should push for climate legislation this year. See also Part I and Part II. Why push for a climate bill in 2008? I've already offered some reasons in my previous posts: the politics will be much the same in 2009 (Okay, David offered that one), we don't want to squander the current momentum, and in any case, we simply can't afford to wait. But if those aren't reason enough, here's another: The world is waiting for u ...
Topics: climate, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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

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

Drill Team Alaska senators introduce legislation to open Arctic Refuge to drilling		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:22 PM on 13 Mar 2008 Photo: Madhav Pai The push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is back on. Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens have introduced legislation that would allow drilling in the Refuge if oil should hit $125 a barrel for five straight days. (For those keeping track at home, oil prices Thursday hit a record high of $111 a barrel.) "I can't believe that they would ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

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