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U.S. House takes first step toward passing 'Green Jobs Act Of 2007' Bill passes House; now on to conference committee	Van Jones	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Hooray! This week Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (CA-32) officially became the most important environmental heroine you've never heard of. Solis, a Latina Congresswoman from Los Angeles, introduced the Green Jobs Act of 2007 (H.R. 2847). The Act represents a smart, far-sighted effort to fight pollution and poverty at the same time by creating federally-funded job training within the green economy. Guess what? On Wednesday, the U.S. House Education and Labor Com ...
Topics: green jobs, legislation, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

House Party U.S. House works on energy bill, passes Interior appropriations bill		29 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
House Party U.S. House works on energy bill, passes Interior appropriations bill The House of Representatives is gettin' jiggy with eco-legislation this week. On Wednesday, it passed a bill declaring that -- gasp! -- global warming is a "reality," and mandated funding for climate research. The House hopes to pass comprehensive energy legislation by July 4; proposals on the table include tough effic ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

More significant energy developments in D.C. today Lots of stuff going on in D.C.	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Lordy, the developments are happening so fast I can barely keep up with them. Here are a few more of note. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va) are teaming up to put together comprehensive climate legislation. You can bet that whatever they come up with is going to be way over on the business-friendly side of things, but nonetheless this is a big development. Lieberman and Warner are both key members of the Senate EPW committee, where chair Barbara B ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

More Dingell The House's most indecipherable, um, cipher	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I've been getting some interesting -- and widely varied -- reactions to this post on Dingell. So here's a follow-up. First, MoveOn's political action campaign director, Ilyse Hogue, sends me this: Rep. Dingell has been late to the game and is well behind other Democratic leaders whose vision can make our country competitive in the 21st century. His calls in the last couple days for greenhouse gas reductions and (maybe) a carbon tax are good steps. But this is not ab ...
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

RPS, as viewed from the states of the Old Confederacy Their reasons aren't all that unreasonable	Sean Casten	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday, I spoke to a group of manufacturers in Arkansas. Throughout the conference there was a fair amount of pride in the successful squashing of Bingaman's RPS bill -- and for reasons that are not entirely unreasonable. Among the speakers was the chair of the Arkansas Energy Commission, who said that he personally objected to the bill because it was unfair. Specifically, it would not allow Arkansas to count their existing hydro-electric capacity in the RPS target ...
Topics: Arkansas, Congress, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

About that organic broccoli from China Helping U.S. farmers transition to organic	Samuel Fromartz	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Organic food has take criticism lately, because a portion is flowing from overseas. (All those food miles, all that lost support for American farmers.) Well, there's a reason that trend is underway: Not enough American farms are growing organic crops and fewer still are converting, so demand is exceeding supply. With the Farm Bill, attempts are underway to address that problem. The organic farming community is seeking a few tender morsels off the Congressional table ...
Topics: agriculture, food, legislation, organic food (all these topics)

Soil: The secret solution to global warming A nifty video	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Quantum Shift TV has made a video about the coming farm bill called "Soil: The Secret Solution to Global Warming.' It opens with Canadian superstar farmer Percy Schmeiser, and segues into a smart discussion of farm bill politics. It's about 9 min. long. Check it out:
Topics: agriculture, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Update on House energy bill sausage making Mixed news	David Roberts	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Now that the energy bill has gotten through the Senate, the fight has moved to the House. Here's an update, from my rapidly dwindling free-trial-period subscription to CongressNow: An expected push by House Democratic lawmakers to raise federal fuel economy standards and create new renewable electricity mandates will likely be deferred until the full House debates comprehensive energy legislation later this year, environmentalists and industry officials said today. ...
Topics: Ed Markey, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Ag policy as if people mattered Time to kick it old school on the farm bill.	Tom Philpott	24 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The terms of debate around the 2007 farm bill's controversial commodity title have gotten rather narrow.On the one hand, you've got the House subcommittee on ag commodities, which essentially cut and pasted commodity language from the subsidy-heavy 2002 farm bill into the 2007 version now being drafted.On the other hand, you've got a chorus of critics, ranging from Oxfam to the Cato Institute to the Environmental Working Group, demanding an end to ag subsidies. This gro ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, Big Ag, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The trouble with RPS Mixing up paths and goals	Sean Casten	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
RPS legislation (which seems to have recently died in the Senate, although could conceivably be reintroduced on amendment) is well-intended, but poorly constructed. Roll the clock back 100 years, and assume you're the legislator tasked with figuring out how to get the population to go West. Which do you choose: (a) the Homestead Act, giving people land as soon as they prove that they can get there and cultivate it, or (b) a tax rebate to anyone who hitches five white ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US Senate (all these topics)

The energy bill After many years of trying, we're moving in the right direction at last	Senator John Kerry	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I'm a bit bleary eyed after midnight votes, and about to do an event in Boston on the energy fight, but I wanted to come back here to Gristmill to tell you how good it feels to have gotten something good done in the Senate instead of just stopping bad things from happening. A year ago I was battling to stop drilling in ANWR. Last night, finally -- after years of battling and five years after we introduced the Kerry-McCain legislation to raise fuel efficiency s ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Reid isn't done yet Senate Dems still fighting for energy package	David Roberts	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Disappointed about the half-victory in the Senate yesterday? Don't give up hope yet. Majority leader Harry Reid's still got some fight in him (from CongressNow, sub. rqd.): Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this afternoon said he will revive the energy tax package that was defeated amid Republican opposition this week, saying he was confident he could muster the votes necessary to pass the measure at a later date. 'We're going to figure out how to bring ...
Topics: energy, Harry Reid, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase		22 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase First, the good news: the U.S. Senate has passed an energy bill containing the first significant fuel-economy increase in years. The bill requires cars and light trucks to get an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, up from the current 22.2 mpg for l ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, Harry Reid, legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Cleaning house The House of Reps leads the way to a greener capitol	Kate Sheppard	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The Hill's alive with the sound of greening. Or at least, it should be, as soon as our representatives start following through with their 'Green the Capitol' initiative, the final report on which was released yesterday in Washington, D.C. The report is the result of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's call for an energy audit of the Capitol complex four months ago, right after she first assumed her new post. Yesterday's report presents the findings of the audi ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives, Washington DC (all these topics)

Has 'carbon tax' entered the world of the possible? Dingell floats it; Boucher knocks it down	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Hmm? What's all this now? John Dingell is floating the possibility of a carbon tax? From CongressNow (sub. rqd.): Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who will play a key role in crafting the House version of comprehensive climate change legislation, on Wednesday night downplayed speculation that the House bill could include some form of a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. Boucher, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce energy and air quality subcommittee, last night said ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, John Dingell, legislation, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Senate: yes to CAFE boost, no to oil taxes One small step forward, one step, uh, sideways	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
You may have heard that today the Senate reached a compromise on CAFE: they will keep the 35mpg-by-2020 requirement, but drop the 4%-every-year-thereafter requirement. The loophole for SUVs will be closed. (Bizarrely, newly minted environmentalist Ted Stevens [R-Alaska] was instrumental in keeping the amendment alive.) This is good news, in a symbolic sort of way (suffice to say, when there are working vehicles on the road that get 100mpg, we shouldn't be satisfied wi ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Crunch time Dirty energy lobbyists are out in force	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Argh:Senate Democrats yesterday were scrambling to prevent the sweeping energy overhaul bill, a top domestic priority, from crumbling amid growing regional divisions within their party and Republican concerns.'The moment of truth on this energy bill is coming very shortly,' Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said. Also, argh: Three powerful lobbying forces -- automakers, electric utilities and the coal industry -- are confounding Democrats' efforts to forge a less-polluti ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

The most powerful force in nature Johnny jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge ... must ... jump ...	JMG	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The most powerful force in nature isn't the nuclear force, or anything wimpy like that; it's the force of a bad idea whose moment has arrived. Whenever I wanted to do something stupid and argued that my friends had done it, Mom would always say, 'If Johnny jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do that too?' From The Oregonian:A bill backed by Gov. Ted Kulongoski to give a big boost to biofuels use and production in Oregon passed the Senate Revenue Committee unanimously ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, legislation, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

Green-collar jobs in Congress A new amendment from Sanders and Clinton	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Over at The Hill's Congress Blog, Sen. Bernie Sanders touts his green-collar jobs amendment to the energy bill, which will come up for debate this week. (Sen. Clinton also put her name on it.) Great to see this issue getting attention. See, again: Van Jones.
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Why does Bush never veto legislation?	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Because he can just direct federal agencies to ignore it instead. And speaking of corrupt federal agencies, check out the latest clowning at Interior, involving Steven Griles, one of the A-list hacks of the Bush years. The cojones on these guys ...
Topics: George Bush, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Breaking: Senate fights off liquid coal More victories	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Sweet! Here's a press release I just got from Friends of the Earth: ----- WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate today voted against two attempts to encourage the use of liquid coal, rejecting a pair of amendments to the energy bill that would have alternately mandated 6 billion gallons of liquid coal use annually by 2022 or provided $10 billion in loan subsidies to produce liquid coal. 'This is a victory for anyone who takes global warming seriously or cares about env ...
Topics: climate, coal-to-liquid fuel, Congress, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Dingell and Boucher back off worst elements of Energy Committee proposal Chalk up a win for Pelosi	David Roberts	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Well hey, look at that! No sooner do I write a post on the horrible legislative proposal out of Dingell's Energy Committee than I find out that Pelosi has more or less beat it back. A memo Dingell sent to the committee today (PDF) says that he and Boucher are removing most of the controversial elements: the CTL subsidies, the weak fuel-economy standards, and perhaps most significantly, the preemption of state (read: California) tailpipe air quality standards. The me ...
Topics: coal-to-liquid fuel, Congress, energy, John Dingell, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, US House of Representatives, Washington DC (all these topics)

D.C. Wherein I chat with House types	David Roberts	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Hi! I'm back. And -- if you'll indulge me in a little whining -- I'm sick as a dog, woefully behind on the news, buried under work, and just generally frazzled and bedraggled and haggard. And what's with time zones? They're stupid. Woe is me, I tell you. I wanted to do a quick post about my D.C. trip, though, which was a blast. Of course the party was great. Somebody (me?) will probably do a separate post about that later. But aside from that, I ran around town meet ...
Topics: coal-to-liquid fuel, Congress, energy, John Dingell, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, US House of Representatives, Washington DC (all these topics)

The fight in the Senate More intransigence on climate change	Senator John Kerry	14 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Hello! I just wanted to drop by Gristmill to give all of you an update on the energy bill. To no one's surprise, the Republicans are throwing sand in the gears and trying to block any meaningful progress. The energy bill, as it stands, is not nearly strong enough, so there are a number of amendments that must be adopted to give us a bill that actually gets us started on that path of dealing with our energy crisis and our climate crisis.But when we tried to brin ...
Topics: Big Oil, Congress, energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Ready to Barack Obama qualifies his support for coal-to-liquid fuel		13 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Ready to Barack Obama qualifies his support for coal-to-liquid fuel Illinois senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama (D) has qualified his support for coal -- which is, you may recall, the enemy of the human race. In January, Obama cosponsored legislation to provide incentives for production of coal-to-liquid fuel. He was lambasted by enviros; influential advocacy ...
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, elections, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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