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If At First You Don't Succeed, Perhaps It Was a Bad Idea Third try at coal-plant bill heads to Kansas governor		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:46 PM on 25 Apr 2008 With firm belief in the power of try, trying again, Kansas legislators have sent another coal-plant proposal to the desk of veto-happy Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. The governor has twice shot down legislation to allow a new two-unit coal plant to be built in her state, but legislative leaders say the new plan is a compromise: it would reduce the size of the ...
Topics: coal, energy, Kansas, legislation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Thinking outside the cereal box Thoughts on the farm bill and the skyrocketing cost of food	Guest author	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Alan Hunt, senior policy analyst for food and farm policy at the Northeast-Midwest Institute and coordinator of the Farm and Food Policy Project. ----- The rising cost of food worldwide is more complex than portrayed in recent articles in The New York Times and the Washington Post. Like a magician revealing his secrets, the once-invisible farm and food system is drawing scrutiny from the media, policymakers, and the public as we realize h ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Buckeyes on solar Renewable energy standard passed in Ohio	Adam Browning	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Ohio gets 87 percent of its electricity from coal (and the rest is mostly nukes), putting it in the upper echelon of coal-using states in the nation (No. 2 behind Texas, to be precise). And that, friends, is about to change, because yesterday the Ohio Legislature passed a renewable energy standard requiring utilities to provide 12.5 percent of Ohio's electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2025. This bill has a solar-specific require ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Ohio, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

The corn identity How Congress is shortchanging our health and sweetening things for the food industry	Bill Chameides	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Are we becoming children of the corn, thanks in part to large subsidies and overproduction? Photo: NREL/Warren Gretz At dinner Sunday night, I asked my friend Prasad if he knew about the new farm bill and what it means for average Americans. He didn't. I wasn't surprised. With the election, the war, and rising prices to fret about, not many people are pondering legislation about farms. But they should, because it has huge implications for the country's n ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, food, health, legislation (all these topics)

Details matter Lieberman-Warner criticism, Part 1	Sean Casten	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Lieberman-Warner is deeply flawed. And like most things political, it's most passionate defenders and opponents are insufferable. It is sad but true that there is no such thing as perfect legislation, for the simple reason that the democratic process demands compromise. Therefore, to the extent that Lieberman-Warner is only imperfect to the degree that is demanded by our political process (e.g., if it's the best we can do, all considering), so be it. It's not tha ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

McCain's climate policy A conversation with McCain policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Opinions differ on the quality of John McCain's domestic policy agenda, but you'd have trouble finding anyone in Washington who would disparage the man he's chosen as one of his top advisers. Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a dauntingly long resume and a reputation among policy wonks on both sides of the aisle for fair-minded number crunching. He has taught economics at top-notch universities, served as a senior economist in both Bush administrations, and run the Congressi ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, interview, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green A discussion of climate policy downplays cap-and-trade	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Now we're getting into the nuts and bolts climate policy, with the following folks: The Hon. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. Attorney General State of California John E. Bryson Chairman and CEO Edison International Alexander "Andy" Karsner Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy U.S. Department of Energy Jonathan Lash President World Resource ...
Topics: business, climate, legislation, politics, carbon trading (all these topics)

Climate policy and purity tests Enough with the internecine warfare over Lieberman-Warner	David Roberts	20 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A lot of green folks of my acquaintance seem to have two and only two things to say about the Lieberman-Warner climate bill: It won't achieve what science demands. Those who support it, even with qualifiers, even while pushing for improvements, are earth fcking, corporate bootlicking sellouts. Maybe I'm just feeling kumbaya because it's 4/20 (ahem), but I don't much care for purity tests like this. Thing is, No. 2 does not necessarily follow from No. 1. ...*
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Can the coal industry be saved in spite of itself? Should it be? New analysis explores whether Congress can do a better job with CCS than Bush administration	Joseph Romm	20 Apr 2008	Gristmill
One of biggest debates about climate solutions is whether coal generation with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is going to be practical and affordable on the timescale needed to avoid catastrophic outcomes. And, of course, there are many who don't think coal should be saved at all. I am not in the second camp, but I doubt coal with CCS is likely to exceed one wedge (I'll discuss this more next week). And we probably need 14 wedges to stay below 450 ppm. I have ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, Congress, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Sebelius to Kansas legislature:	David Roberts	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
No, I really meant it.
Topics: coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Kansas, legislation, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Climate 'central' to McCain's campaign?	David Roberts	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In the course of an NYT story about McCain's tax policies (short summary: he wants to punch a $200b hole in the budget via regressive tax cuts), political reporter Michael Cooper says: One of Mr. McCain's tax proposals would take effect even before the Republican Convention: he called on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent a gallon federal gas tax from Memorial Day until Labor Day. Mr. McCain said that doing so would provide 'an immediate economic stimulus,' but some ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, legislation, messaging, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Agro-sham Bush and farm policy 'reform'	Tom Philpott	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In the farm bill debate, the Bush administration has joined Environmental Defense Fund, The Environmental Working Group, and other Big Green groups in taking a 'reform' position: subsidies are bad, so let's cut them. I've been arguing that this position amounts to no reform at all, because it doesn't address the underlying problem of U.S. farming: the relentless pressure on our farmland from chemical-intensive agriculture -- an arrangement that in the end benefits ag ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, George Bush, industrial ag, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Blocking Ferrari-ready driveways Maine becomes third state to pass tough coal law	Ted Nace	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, Maine Gov. John E. Baldacci signed LD 2126, 'An Act To Minimize Carbon Dioxide Emissions from New Coal-Powered Industrial and Electrical Generating Facilities in the State.' The law, which was sponsored by Rep. W. Bruce MacDonald (D-Maine), requires the Board of Environmental Protection to develop greenhouse gas emission standards for coal facilities. It also puts a moratorium in place on building any new coal plants until the standards are developed. Three st ...
Topics: coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, Maine, politics, state politics (all these topics)

V -- but not for victory Who might like the president's bogus climate principles	Frank O'Donnell	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
One person undoubtedly taking note of the president's 'principles' on climate change is Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio. He is reportedly working on his own weak, coal industry-friendly climate amendment to the Lieberman-Warner bill. Voinovich reportedly will try to couple such an amendment with related provisions to weaken the Clean Air Act. Sound familiar?Yes, that's because the Bush administration has made its own efforts to weaken the Clean Air ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, legislation, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Carbon tax loses a congressional voice Dingell takes his 'hybrid tax' off the table	Charles Komanoff	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The carbon tax camp lost a powerful congressional voice yesterday when Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) announced he was taking 'off the table' the hybrid carbon tax proposal he floated last fall that featured a national carbon fee, supplemental increases in taxes on gasoline and aviation fuel, and a reduction in the mortgage interest deduction for super-large houses. In a prepared statement, the Michigan lawmaker, who for much of his 54 years in Congress has chaired th ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, climate, energy, gas prices, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

From the peanut gallery Responses to Bush's climate speech	Grist	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Here's a roundup of responses to Bush's climate speech. We'll add to it as more come in. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming:'By the time President Bush's plan finally starts to cut global warming emissions, the planet will already be cooked. The President's short-term goal is to do nothing, his medium-term goal is to do nothing much, and his long-term goal is to do nothing close to what's needed to sav ...
Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, environmental movement, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, legislation, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Don't Beat Around the Bush Bush prepares to give climate speech		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:56 PM on 15 Apr 2008 As suspected, President George W. Bush will spell out a strategy for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in a speech today. According to a White House official, "He'll set a national economy-wide goal of stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," but will decline to outline a specific plan. Bush will reportedly also say that he wants to put the brakes on greenhouse-gas emission ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Bush to give speech on climate change strategy	David Roberts	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Just over the wires from AP: President Bush is giving a Rose Garden speech on Wednesday on climate change to lay out the way he thinks the U.S. can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. White House press secretary Dana Perino says that Bush will not outline a specific proposal, but instead will spell out a strategy for long-term goals for curbing emissions. Bush wants every major economy, including China and India, to establish a national goal for cutting the emiss ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

FOE to McCain: stop pushing for pork for corporate polluters	David Roberts	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Friends of the Earth has started a new campaign against John McCain, asking him to 'stop pushing pork for corporate polluters' -- i.e., to stop supporting Lieberman-Warner and stop pushing for nuke subsidies to be added to it. Here's the ad, which is running nationally:
Topics: energy, Friends of the Earth, John McCain, legislation, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Putting your money where your mouth is How expensive is food, really?	Sharon Astyk	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
There is no doubt whatsoever that rising food costs are hurting people all over the world. More than half of the world's population spends 50 percent of their income or more on food, and the massive rise in staple prices threatens to increase famine rates drastically. We are already seeing the early signs of this in Haiti and in other poor nations. It is also undoubtedly true that rising food prices are digging into the budgets of average people, including me. An ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, economy, food, legislation, politics, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Here, Have a Grain of Salt Bush may turn about-face, ask Congress to address climate change		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 14 Apr 2008 President Bush may soon announce that he wants Congress to pass a climate-change-fightin' bill, and will lay out suggestions for what that should include as early as this week, according to the Washington Times. Republican Congressfolk reportedly are cautioning the administration not to go too crazy. The U.S.-led climate group of major economies meets this week in Paris, ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Crunch time for the farm bill The legislation isn't perfect, but it's far better than extending the 2002 bill	Aimee Witteman	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
With the new farm bill languishing in the last stages of negotiations, many are bemoaning its lack of sweeping reform, suggesting that we have gained very little from months and years of work. But if the new bill is not to be the visionary document that many hoped and advocated for, what, if anything, do we stand to lose if the new bill is vetoed or negotiations reach an impasse and the 2002 farm bill is extended for two years? There are several small but import ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, legislation, local food, organic food, politics, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Saving the planet: sometimes as important as saving jobs Maryland House committee kills climate bill	Joseph Romm	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- After reporting last week on the climate policy progression carving its way through the Maryland Senate, the same measures were defeated in a Maryland House committee this week. Supposedly, the bill was killed by pressure from industry and labor lobbyists, ironically accompanied by steelworkers draped with 'Save Our Jobs' t-shirts. First of ...
Topics: business, legislation, Maryland, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Will you pay or will you go? Renewables score big victory in the Senate	Josh Dorner	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
With today's green energy boom (and over 100,000 existing jobs in the wind and solar industries alone) hanging in the balance, the Senate voted this morning by an overwhelming 88 to 8 margin to attach short-term extensions of key clean energy tax incentives set to expire at the end of this year -- the Production Tax Credit that mostly goes to wind power, the Investment Tax Credit for solar, and other incentives for energy efficient appliances and the like -- to the housi ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives, US Senate (all these topics)

Happy Renew Year! Senate passes one-year extension of renewable-energy tax credit		10 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 11:17 AM on 10 Apr 2008 The U.S. Senate passed an extension of the renewable-energy production tax credit Thursday as part of a bill intended to address the ailing U.S. housing market. The renewable-energy credit provides a per-kilowatt-hour incentive for the first 10 years a renewable-energy project is in operation -- a credit considered to be a vital driver of clean-energy expansion. The credit is worth ...
Topics: legislation, news, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

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