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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)

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)

News from the Googleplex Is Google betting on a carbon tax?	Charles Komanoff	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Google Inc. has a new project, 'Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal.' Google is preparing to bet megabucks, mega-engineers, and its cutting-edge reputation on its ability to propel solar thermal power, wind turbines, and other renewable electricity up the innovation curve and under the cost of coal-fired power, Reuters reported Tuesday. "Our goal is to produce one gigawatt [1,000 megawatts] of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are opt ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Splitting up is hard to do Pelosi joins Reid in bifurcating the energy bill	Brian Beutler	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A couple weeks ago, as I wrote here, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was keeping mum about her efforts alongside Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass the energy bill. She would neither confirm nor deny rumors about a split bill. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that she's no longer keeping quiet: Democratic leaders have wrestled for months with how to meld the Senate bill, which includes a new fuel-economy mandate for auto makers, and the House bill, which wo ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Congressional fuel-economy deal near A possible compromise in energy legislation negotiations	Joseph Romm	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The Detroit Free Press reports: Congressional negotiators are close to agreement on an increase in fuel economy standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020, with some caveats to satisfy U.S. automakers. What caveats? The compromise would preserve the distinction between cars and trucks, something Detroit automakers have fought for, while giving federal regulators strict limits on how to put the increases into place. It also would include a provision backed by ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, legislation, politics (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)

It's economics, not agronomy Why gutting commodity subsidies should be the focus of Farm Bill reform efforts	Thomas Dobbs	19 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Thomas Dobbs is Professor Emeritus of Economics at South Dakota State University, and a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food & Society Policy Fellow. ----- Tom Philpott wrote an article in which he challenged some of the key assumptions underlying Farm Bill reform efforts of the past year ('It's the Agronomy, Stupid'). He contended that gutting commodity subsidies would not solve the U.S.'s long-standing oversupply problems, and that we need the money currently in t ...
Topics: ag policy, politics, ag subsidies, agriculture, legislation (all these topics)

The future of the farm bill Moving toward responsible agriculture	Peter Donovan	19 Nov 2007	Gristmill
North Dakota senator Kent Conrad calls the farm bill a "legislative battleship that you cannot turn around quickly." As of mid-November 2007, this year's $286 billion farm bill appears to be having engine trouble. It is stalled in the Senate, and there is talk of a presidential veto. Should farmers be able to receive more than $250,000 in subsidy payments? What should the funding be for biofuels, for school lunches? Most of these arguments ar ...
Topics: agriculture, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The speaker speaks on the energy bill Nancy Pelosi answers my question about renewables in the energy bill	Brian Beutler	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I and several other journalists spent the morning at an on-the-record breakfast with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) where, armed with my trusty digital voice recorder, I asked her to address last week's rumors about the potential demise of renewable energy in the energy bill. Will the electricity standard and the tax titles be dropped? If not, will the bill be split into parts? Her reaction was ... well, I'd call it slight consternation. She, not surprisingly ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

I'm Just a Bill, and I'm Sitting Here On ... Uh, Never Mind British government publishes climate change bill		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 16 Nov 2007 The British government has published its climate change bill, which would set a target of reducing carbon emissions 60 percent by 2050. The bill will now go through a parliamentary process; if made law, Britain would be the first country to adopt a legally binding commitment to carbon reductions. sources:� Reuters, Daily Mail Fro ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: A friendly spin?	Brian Beutler	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): 'This bill provides billions of dollars for coal. It's like a Manhattan Project for coal.' Noted without comment.
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Global warming and political will The Lieberman-Warner bill is not strong enough to do the job	Senator Bernie Sanders	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Bernie Sanders. As a member of both the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee it is my view that the time is long overdue for Congress to go beyond deal making and 'politics as usual' in addressing the crisis of global warming. The droughts, floods and severe weather disturbances our planet is already experiencing will only get worse, potentially impacting billions of people, if we do ...
Topics: energy, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics)

NYT sez: Don't gut it New York Times supports renewables in energy bill	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Just in time to be too late? The New York Times has some good advice for the congressional leadership: The House bill requires utilities to generate 15 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind by 2020. Republicans, pressured by a few big utilities like the Southern Company, blocked a similar provision in the Senate. Almost two dozen states have already figured out that this is both good for the environment and good for the economy and have enacted ren ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, politics, legislation (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing NRDC says it supports ASCA	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Forgive the intermittent posting. The live feed is coming and going a bit. It came back in just in time for me to hear David Hawkins say on behalf of the NRDC -- though not on behalf of USCAP -- that the bill's 'emissions reductions in the early years are strong. Toward the end ... we'll need emissions reductions to be stronger than they are.' But, he went on, it 'merits an affirmative vote.
Topics: climate, energy, politics, legislation (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing Prepared statements of those testifying before the committee	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Prepared statements, now available: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Ca), Chairman, Committee on the Environment and Public Works David Hawkins, Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council Dr. David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Geography and Environmental Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO Andrew Sharkey, President and CEO, American Iron and Steel Institute Donald R. Rowle ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics, legislation (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing Cardin wants more money for public transit	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) says he can support the bill if it provides more funds for public transportation, including at the state level.He said this in the context of a response to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who wants the bill changed to a sector-by-sector (as opposed to economy-wide) cap-and-trade system. Cardin suggested that Senators shouldn't be demanding extraordinary changes to the legislation and threatening to withhold support unless their demands are ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics, legislation, public transportation (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing Tom Carper requests improvements in ASCA	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Tom Carper (D-Del.) has said he will be able to support the legislation if it: includes provisions to mitigate pollutants like nitrogen oxide and mercury found most widely in the northeastern United States; moves to a more just allocation system -- one that devotes more credits to cleaner energy sources; contains no built-in punishment of early actors, companies that have already begun mitigating their emissions. Not the most ambitious of demands, but there they ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Hear some trains a-comin' Public transit will be necessary for CO2 reductions	Jon Rynn	12 Nov 2007	Gristmill
At the end of October, both New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg and, believe it or not, Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott, passed their cosponsored bill in the Senate to allocate $1.9 billion per year for six years to expand passenger rail in the U.S. According to Parade magazine (yes, the one that's inserted into Sunday newspapers), the main goal is 'to develop high-speed, short-haul rail corridors modeled on the European city-to-city routes. They could ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Farm bill: Beware the industrial-meat complex Don't let Big Meat slaughter the packer ban	Tom Philpott	12 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Note: An earlier version of this post appeared briefly Friday. I pulled it down because of a misunderstanding involving a leaked document. I've deleted references to the document in this post, but hope to be able to post about it soon. In the debate over the Senate ag committee's farm bill version, a key facet has gotten lost in the shuffle: the so-called "packer ban," which would prohibit meat processors from also raising livestock. Michael Pollan didn ...
Topics: animal welfare, legislation, politics, food, agriculture (all these topics)

Blumenauer responds	David Roberts	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In case you don't read comments: In response to Mike Grunwald's post on the Water Resources Development Act, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) of the Corps Reform Caucus explains why he made the difficult decision to vote for it.
Topics: legislation, water conflicts, politics (all these topics)

Farm school The Farm Bill debate does hinge on subsidies	David Roberts	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Britt Lundgren, an Agricultural Policy Fellow at Environmental Defense. ----- Tom Philpott's recent column on the ongoing debate over Farm Bill reform raises some interesting points, including the idea that commodity subsidies may not be the root cause of overproduction. But he misses the real point behind the debate, which is whether or not the current suite of farm subsidies are actually an effective and productive way to support agr ...
Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Renewable energy on the ropes Hound your representative to add an RPS to the energy bill	Adam Browning	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
If scientists could take the repeated dashing of hopes for a better future and harness it to make electrons, we'd have electricity too cheap to meter. If the crushing of expectations were a renewable resource, this Congress is truly on the cutting edge of the clean energy revolution. Apparently, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi met on Thursday morning and decided to move an energy bill that does not include an RPS [see this post]. Or a tax title. No tax title means n ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Lieberman-Warner full committee markup ...	David Roberts	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
... will take place on Dec. 5 (sub. rqd.). Lieberman says he's open to some changes, as long as they don't splinter the coalition:Lieberman said he didn't expect the bill's 2020 emission target (about 15 percent below 2005 levels) to change. But he added there may be consensus on tightening the 2050 limits that right now seek cuts of about 63 percent from 2005 levels. He also said he was open to moving up the 2036 date when power plants and other industry no longer rec ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A dry eye in the House Why Bush's water-bill veto was actually a good idea	Grist	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Michael Grunwald, senior correspondent for Time Magazine and noted critic of the Army Corps of Engineers, says yesterday's historic override of President Bush's water-bill veto isn't worth celebrating -- despite what many environmental activists think. He was the toast of Congress earlier this year, but yesterday Bush was less popular. Photo: whitehouse.gov Hooray! The Everglades and coastal Louisana have been rescued! Activists and politicians alike are giddy o ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, dumbassery, Florida, George Bush, legislation, Louisiana, water conflicts (all these topics)

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