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The cap and trade boat just got a little fuller Oh what a relief it biz	Kif Scheuer	08 May 2007	Gristmill
The United States Climate Action Partnership, the group of corporations calling 'on the federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions,' just doubled in size (PDF): With its new members, USCAP companies now have total revenues of $1.7 trillion, a collective workforce of more than 2 million and operations in all 50 states; they also have a combine market capitalization of more than $1.9 tril ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, greenish companies, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Carbon tax news Could the unthinkable become thinked?	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
Over on MyDD, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) discusses the carbon tax bill he recently introduced. My legislation, the Save Our Climate Act (H.R. 2069), would tax coal, petroleum and natural gas at a rate of $10 per ton of carbon content. Applied when these fossil fuels are initially removed from the ground, the tax would increase by $10 each year, freezing when a mandated report by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Energy determines that carbon d ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tester kills liquid coal amendment We knew we liked that guy	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
Huge Gristmill big-ups to Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who late last week cast a crucial vote in the Senate EPW committee to scuttle a coal-to-liquid amendment. The committee's been trying to craft an energy package; they had agreed to table contentious issues like CTL for open debate on the floor, but Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo) put forth his measure anyway. It would have created a substantial mandate for liquid coal fuels -- 21 billion gallons annually by 2022 -- and cou ...
Topics: coal, energy, legislation, Montana, politics (all these topics)

Immediate worries, roadblocks, and model campaigns: Plan of action What to do now	Ken Ward	03 May 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include))How climate change is handled in few key areas within the year -- particularly congressional action in 2008 and 2009 and the 2008 presidential election -- will likely set the terms of the U.S. political debate, which for all practical purposes, within the constraints of Hansen's standard and timeframe for action, will determine the outcome. Therefore, a Bright Lines plan of action must accomplish three things: polarize debate in Congre ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, elections, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Kossacks Goin' new school	Adam Browning	02 May 2007	Gristmill
Old school Cossacks: thundered off the steppes in bloodthirsty hordes, fearsome warriors, rumored to tuck ears of enemies under saddleblankets in lieu of provisions during raids. New-school Kossacks: more tippety-tap than thundering, not so much with the ear eating, fearsome and effective in rallying support for renewable energy. HR 550 is the largest, most important piece of solar legislation ever introduced in the U.S. Here is a story about how they are making ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Netroots, meet climate change policy; climate change policy, netroots Discuss amongst yourselves	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This is heartening: the activist netroots are starting to get serious about figuring out global warming policy. Welcome to the fun, y'all! Stoller comes to a familiar conclusion: carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade. I think he's a little hard on the latter, but the basic position is sound -- and all but universal among non-politicians these days.
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, legislation, politics, websites (all these topics)

Tighten Up Plans to boost energy efficiency start getting traction in Congress	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Apr 2007	Muckraker
What's not to love about energy efficiency? It's the paradigmatic win-win scenario -- save money, protect the climate and broader environment, and reduce reliance on unsavory sources of energy, all in one fell swoop. As efficiency guru Amory Lovins puts it [PDF], "Using energy more efficiently offers an economic bonanza -- not because of the benefits of stopping global warm ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Congress, Ed Markey, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Different Farm Bill this time around? Pollan weighs in	Jason D Scorse	21 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Michael Pollan thinks so. Let's hope he's right. Call your Senators and Representatives to make sure.
Topics: agriculture, Congress, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Bingaman and Domenici propose Energy Efficiency Promotion Act Good stuff	David Roberts	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I'll leave it to Gar to judge if the targets are sufficiently aggressive, but either way I'm happy to see new legislation on energy efficiency being proposed in Congress. This stuff isn't sexy and doesn't garner much media attention, but -- as we keep saying -- efficiency is the low-hanging fruit. Time to eat some of it.
Topics: Congress, energy efficiency, legislation, politics (all these topics)

No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill		19 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill After five years of delay, the House has passed a bill creating a 167-square-mile Wild Sky Wilderness area in northern Washington state. The bill had been approved by the Senate three times in recent years, but stalled out each time in the Republican-led House, with former California Rep. Richard P ...
Topics: legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Boxer is a fighter	Adam Browning	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Senator Boxer vows to take the global warming fight to the administration, rules out carbon tax in favor of cap and trade. The San Francisco Chronicle has the details.
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, Congress, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The Warm on Terror Bipartisan bill calls for intelligence assessment of climate impacts	Amanda Griscom Little	05 Apr 2007	Muckraker
How might U.S. national security be threatened by mega-droughts, coastal flooding, killer hurricanes, food scarcity, and the other ecological calamities scientists widely predict will occur if global warming continues apace? Is climate change the real ticking bomb? Photo: iStockphoto No one knows, but Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) think it's time to f ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics (all these topics)

Pushing intelligence agencies to weigh in on climate change Like, totally geo-green	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Interesting: Senators of both parties are pushing for U.S. intelligence agencies to assess the danger to the nation's security posed by global warming. Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Wednesday introduced legislation that would 'require a National Intelligence Estimate to assess the security challenges presented by the world's changing climate,' according to a statement from their offices. National Intelligence Estimates, or NIEs, repres ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Congress, Department of Defense, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Sacks Education San Francisco approves first-in-nation ban on plastic bags		28 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Sacks Education San Francisco approves first-in-nation ban on plastic bags San Francisco is the first U.S. city to pass a ban on non-recyclable plastic bags at major supermarkets and drugstores. Once it's signed into law, the stores will have six months to a year to sack the sacks, switching to compostable, recyclable ones made from corn or potato starch -- or reverting to recyclable paper. "We ...
Topics: business, California, legislation, news, San Francisco (all these topics)

Rep. Henry Waxman ...	David Roberts	23 Mar 2007	Gristmill
... introduced his Safe Climate Act on Wed. It would reduce U.S. GHG emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. More on the bill here.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, legislation, politics (all these topics)

We'll Miss the Mall From the campaign trail, John Edwards outlines big energy plans		21 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
We'll Miss the Mall From the campaign trail, John Edwards outlines big energy plans Today we learned something: there are other Democrats running for president besides Hillrack O'Clinton. Surprised? So were we! Seems a charming southerner, name of John Edwards, is on the campaign trail. And though he's just your run-of-the-mill white fella, the former North Carolina ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, John Edwards, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Severe Whether Events Climate action of all kinds takes Capitol Hill by storm		21 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Severe Whether Events Climate action of all kinds takes Capitol Hill by storm It's only Wednesday, but it's already been a full week of rip-roarin' climate action on Capitol Hill. After a coalition of investors pleaded for emissions cuts on Monday, hundreds of activists gathered Tuesday for "Climate Crisis Action Day." The group heard from senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), as well as ...
Topics: climate, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

The Hill Is Alive With the Sound of Musing Pelosi and Boxer aim to green Capitol Hill		06 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
The Hill Is Alive With the Sound of Musing Pelosi and Boxer aim to green Capitol Hill Tired of talking the energy-efficiency talk in an eco-unfriendly setting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Barbara Boxer (both D-Calif.) are aiming to green Capitol Hill. On Friday, Pelosi wrote a letter directing the House chief administrative officer to look into implementing &qu ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, news, politics (all these topics)

Like a spam filter for your mailbox Knock that junk off	Todd Hymas Samkara	02 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Washington state is one of a half dozen states considering legislation this year to create a "do not mail" list for residents, similar to the feds' popular "do not call" registry. And like the telemarketing industry's cries that it would be utterly destroyed and millions of contented telemarketers would be out of a job, similar forces are mobilizing against the "do not mail" bills, including the Direct Marketing Association, the ma ...
Topics: legislation, politics, Washington, waste (all these topics)

Hillary's new energy bill Decent	David Roberts	27 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Today, Hillary Clinton addressed the Apollo Alliance to introduce some new legislation that would call for a Strategic Energy Fund. Here's where the fund would get its money: The legislation eliminates oil company tax breaks and ensures that they pay their fair share of royalties for drilling on public lands. The legislation also places a temporary fee on major oil company profits that exceed a 2000-2004 profit baseline. The fee would be in place for two years, ...
Topics: energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tip Tip Hurray! Senate bills and corporate coalition push Washington toward climate action	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Jan 2007	Muckraker
Will January 2007 prove to be a tipping point for U.S. climate-change policy? Already this month we've seen a barrage of high-profile activity -- and President Bush hasn't even given his State of the Union address yet. Are we at a tipping point? First there was a rapid-fire succession of four major climate-change bills proposed in the Senate, all of which call for mand ...
Topics: business, climate, greenish companies, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Paying the Farm Bill Why federal farm support deserves a fresh look	Tom Philpott	23 Jan 2007	Victual Reality
Note: Over the course of three weeks, as Congress begins discussion of the 2007 farm bill, Victual Reality will be devoted to analyzing the political economy of farming and teasing out an agenda for a socially and environmentally sustainable farm policy. It's more exciting than it sounds, we swear! [Read the first installment below, the second installment here, and the third here.] Like a barnyard sow ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, industrial ag, legislation, politics, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Energizer Money Enviros delighted with House Democrats' energy bill	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Jan 2007	Muckraker
"I can't find anything wrong with it. Really, there is no catch. It's all good." Is the sun setting on some oil industry tax breaks? Photo: iStockphoto Let the record show that these contented words were spoken by an environmentalist -- Jim Presswood, a top lobbyist for the Natural Resources Defense Council to be exact. He's talking about the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007, introduced on ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Obama/McCain/Lieberman climate bill It's ... medium	David Roberts	12 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The big news today is that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has joined with McCain and Lieberman to re-introduce a bill to cap carbon dioxide emissions. The targets aren't all that ambitious -- it would slow the rise of CO2 emissions, cutting them two-thirds from present levels by 2050 -- but the bill is nonetheless expected to meet fierce resistance from all the usual dinosaurs. It sounds like its main purpose is to push the edge so that Bingaman can get his softer bill p ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Even Stevens? With new energy-focused bills, Stevens delights enviros and Obama disappoints	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Jan 2007	Muckraker
Among the barrage of energy-related bills already unleashed by the 110th Congress, one of the most progressive comes not from the newly empowered Democrats, but from Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, a zealous proponent of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Just as peculiar, one of the bills that most rankles environmentalists comes from Democratic ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

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