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Photovoltaic Finish California's Million Solar Roofs bill dies in legislature		12 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Photovoltaic Finish California's Million Solar Roofs bill dies in legislature Partisan squabbling effectively killed California's closely watched Million Solar Roofs legislation last week, as the state Assembly session ended on Thursday with no vote on the bill. The measure, which would have dramatically boosted the state's use of so ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, energy, energy at home, legislation, news, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Rays and Confused Partisan divide stalls California's solar-roofs bill		01 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Rays and Confused Partisan divide stalls California's solar-roofs bill As its initial bipartisan support devolves into a partisan food fight, California's Million Solar Roofs legislation may die on the vine. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) withdrew his formerly enthusiastic backing for the bill -- which could put $2 billion toward solar-energy generation by 2019 ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, legislation, news, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

A Broken Reid Passage of energy bill highlights lack of united Democratic opposition	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Aug 2005	Muckraker
Four years, two failed conference attempts, and one filibuster after the Republican leadership first introduced the Bush-backed energy bill into Congress, the controversial legislation is being signed into law today by the president, yielding a major victory for the White House -- and exposing Democrats' continued inability to rally around a unified vision and stay on message ...
Topics: energy, Harry Reid, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Solar Derby Schwarzenegger's solar-roof plan could get sidelined by partisan squabbling	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Jun 2005	Muckraker
Fiddling on the roof. Photo: AstroPower/NREL. The Golden State could soon enact the most ambitious solar-energy initiative ever proposed in the U.S. -- legislation intended to put photovoltaic panels on a million California rooftops. Unless, that is, the bill gets derailed by a behind-the-scenes political pissing match between Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Amend and Hallelujah Climate finally getting more notice in Senate with energy-bill amendments	Amanda Griscom Little	26 May 2005	Muckraker
The climate-change debate is beginning to move forward inside the Beltway -- at a glacial pace relative to the rest of the industrialized world, of course, but these days even glaciers are moving at a discernable clip. Heat is on in Senate as climate starts getting more attention. As the energy bill goes through the markup process in the Senate and security hawks an ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Jagged Little Drill Cornerstone environmental law, NEPA, under fire in energy bill	Amanda Griscom Little	05 May 2005	Muckraker
When the energy bill sailed through the House of Representatives late last month, the media reported that it was the same old grotesquely corpulent package that the GOP leadership had previously tried -- and failed -- to pass through Congress four times in the last four years. This is true. But what flew under the radar were a few new provisions snuck in at the 11th hour by Rep ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The energy bill It's a bloated, industry-friend piece of crony capitalism. And its breath stinks.	David Roberts	20 Apr 2005	Gristmill
The House starts work on the monstrosity that is the Energy Bill today, and could vote on it as early as tomorrow. It contains this hideous provision, a naked givaway to big industry that would "bypass Congress's normal spending process to funnel up to $2 billion over 10 years into research for recovering oil and gas from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico." And that's just the beginning. It's difficult to describe just how reprehensible this bil ...
Topics: energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Better Off Deadlocked Senate committee deadlock means Clear Skies unlikely to pass this year		10 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Better Off Deadlocked Senate committee deadlock means Clear Skies unlikely to pass this year After a deadlocked 9-9 vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Bush administration's long-sought Clear Skies legislation appears unlikely to pass -- at least this year. The fourth time was not the charm for committee chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who had scheduled and then delayed the vote three t ...
Topics: air pollution, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

He Wasn't Kidding About Being Back Schwarzenegger returns with new, revamped solar initiative		01 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
He Wasn't Kidding About Being Back Schwarzenegger returns with new, revamped solar initiative Yesterday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) joined state senators from both parties to introduce a new version of his solar plan. What David Hochschild of Vote Solar called "the most ambitious solar initiative ever proposed in the United States" wou ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, legislation, news, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

The Chuck Stops Here An interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska, on his new climate bills	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Mar 2005	Main Dish
Sen. Chuck Hagel. A possible GOP presidential contender in 2008, Nebraskan Sen. Chuck Hagel has lately sprung to the public stage as one of the leading Republican voices on climate change. In mid-February, he introduced three bills designed to be economic jumper cables that would boost the development of clean-energy technologies -- one focusing on inte ...
Topics: climate, interview, legislation, politics, United States (all these topics)

Operation Squander As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Feb 2005	Muckraker
It's an action-packed week on the climate front: The Kyoto Protocol finally goes into effect today throughout the vast majority of the industrialized world (the U.S. conspicuously not included), and Capitol Hill is awash in climate-related assaults and initiatives. As Kyoto and climate bills heat up, greens' response is tepid. Congress is facing a double whammy of President Bush's m ...
Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, Muckraker, National Environmental Trust, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Class Action Dismissed Enviros join chorus against class-action bill, but measure still likely to pass	Amanda Griscom Little	10 Feb 2005	Muckraker
Will class-action plaintiffs still get their day in court? The Erin Brockoviches of America could have a much tougher time going after polluters if the Class Action Fairness Act -- which the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve last week -- is signed into law. The bill, which will be put to a full Senate vote today, would move most major class-acti ...
Topics: Earthjustice, environmental justice, legislation, Muckraker, non-government organizations, NRDC, politics, Sierra Club, water pollution (all these topics)

Clear Skies in Morning, Bushies Take Warning Bush team pushes Clear Skies, but disagreement over CO2 could stymie the bill	Amanda Griscom Little	27 Jan 2005	Muckraker
Barely a week into the president's second term, the emboldened Bush team -- even whilst juggling plans for a Social Security overhaul and major new expenditures on the Iraq venture -- has signaled that it's bound and determined to pass its Clear Skies Act, the first major amendment to the Clean Air Act since 1990. The administration has k ...
Topics: air pollution, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Kick the Habitat GOP has set its sights on revamping the Endangered Species Act	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Nov 2004	Muckraker
The newly empowered Republican majority on Capitol Hill will grease the skids for plenty of legislation that's sure to gall environmentalists and delight developers, but the most galling and delighting of all could be sweeping changes to the 30-year-old Endangered Species Act. A Florida panther wonders whether ESA is really past its prime. Photo: U.S. FWS. Business leaders, top Bu ...
Topics: endangered species, legislation, Muckraker, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Frankenbill The energy bill is alive -- alive! -- and that could be bad news for ANWR	Amanda Griscom Little	09 Nov 2004	Muckraker
A day after winning the presidential election last week, George W. Bush made this now-legendary -- and, to some, menacing -- statement: "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it." Without dwelling on the notion that conservatives are supposed to protect and grow capital, not fritter it away, environmentalists are wondering j ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Porkic Victory Pork-laden corporate tax bill socks it to the environment	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Oct 2004	Muckraker
Oink, oink. The monstrous corporate tax legislation that recently sailed through Congress -- passing in the Senate 69-17 last Monday, only days after it passed in the House -- has given the environmental community a terrible case of Coulda-Been-Worse Syndrome. "We're well aware that this bill reflects the kind of sausage-making, vote-building, pigs-at-the-trough mentality that C ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics, waste (all these topics)

Energy Kabuki House to repass energy bill to vex Democrats	Amanda Griscom	15 Jun 2004	Muckraker
Our House is a very, very, very fine House. If at first you succeed, well, try again anyway. That's how GOP leaders in the House are reinterpreting the old elementary-school bromide as they attempt to create the illusion of hope for the doomed, pork-laden energy bill -- and to deflect the political heat over high gas prices away from the White House and onto the Democrats. For more than a month, the Repub ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Housewarming Bipartisan House bill may signal growing consensus on climate change	Amanda Griscom	07 Apr 2004	Muckraker
Gilchrest (left) and Olver, the new climate warriors. Photo: U.S. House. The nascent congressional effort to fight global warming has spread to the House -- but supporters acknowledge that it's not likely to receive an especially warm welcome from the chamber's leadership. Last week, a motley bipartisan crew of representatives including Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) and John Olver (D-Mass ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

A Twitch Before Dying? Energy bill may be gaining ground, but prospects are still dicey	Amanda Griscom	09 Mar 2004	Muckraker
It's a gas, gas, gas. U.S. oil prices jumped to their highest levels since the Iraq war this week, hitting $37.51 a barrel, for an average of about $1.74 a gallon -- unwelcome news for those feeling the pinch at the pump, but great news for supporters of the newly overhauled but still-stalled energy bill. "They've been waiting for something like this -- a blackout, a spik ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Parody on Parade An improbable plan would use Arctic Refuge drilling proceeds to fund transportation projects	Amanda Griscom	11 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Beltway insiders waited with bated breath yesterday to see if Sen. Peter Domenici (R-N.M.) would succeed in tacking his stalled-out energy bill onto the huge highway transportation bill now wending its way through Congress. The consensus from his Senate Republican colleagues? No deal. In need of refuge. Photo: FWS. But another cockamamie plan that would min ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Unplugged? Worries over federal deficit could dim prospects for energy bill	Amanda Griscom	05 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Oh, the irony. The same week Fortune magazine released a special "Climate Collapse" issue warning its double-starched readers of "growing evidence" that "abrupt climate change may well occur in the not-too-distant future," Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have been attempting yet again to push through a controversial energy bill that would only intensify th ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Is That a Lawmaker in Your Pocket, or ... ? A breakdown of the Senate vote on the Climate Stewardship Act		05 Nov 2003	Muckraker

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

The Thrill of Defeat The climate bill lost out, but the environment may yet prove the winner	Amanda Griscom	05 Nov 2003	Muckraker
"We were nervous as hell," said Kevin Curtis, vice president of National Environmental Trust, describing the sentiment leading up to last Thursday's Senate vote that defeated the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, 43 to 55. "But it's a great start. This may seem to be a defeat now, but in the end, it's a victory." Lieberman stumps for his bill. Pho ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Soft Boiled Will a softer McCain-Lieberman bill prove to be harder-hitting?	Amanda Griscom	08 Oct 2003	Muckraker
Even though Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) decided to soften the terms of their climate bill last week, the document may go down in history as one of the hardest-hitting gambits in the U.S. fight against global warming. In fact, easing the demands of the bill -- which proposes a mandatory cap on greenhouse-gas emissions from the energy, industrial, commercial, and ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Maine Event		25 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
The Maine Event Meanwhile, Maine is several steps ahead of the federal government when it comes to combating climate change: Today, the state will become the first in the nation to enact a law establishing specific goals and deadlines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Other New England states have addressed carbon dioxide emissions through different means -- such as executive orders, acti ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, Maine, ozone (all these topics)

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