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Why a climate bill in 2008? Part III The world is waiting for us to lead the way	Tony Kreindler	18 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the third in a series on why we should push for climate legislation this year. See also Part I and Part II. Why push for a climate bill in 2008? I've already offered some reasons in my previous posts: the politics will be much the same in 2009 (Okay, David offered that one), we don't want to squander the current momentum, and in any case, we simply can't afford to wait. But if those aren't reason enough, here's another: The world is waiting for u ...
Topics: climate, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Shhhh! Bush administration quietly acknowledges climate plan is doable	Miles Grant	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Hey, did you notice that new analysis the Environmental Protection Agency just put out? The one on the economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? No? None of this ringing a bell? That's just the way the EPA wants it. Like it was putting a scandal-ridden aide out to pasture, the administration quietly released the report on Friday afternoon and has tried to bury the important findings. But while the release may have been stealthy and the presenta ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Compromise vs. strong action Don't hold your breath on Lieberman-Warner passing in 2008	Joseph Romm	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I can't imagine anyone believing we would see 60 Senate votes this year for an unwatered-down climate bill. The center-right folk want big compromises, like a poison-pill safety valve (see below). But Sen. Boxer (D-Calif.) has little motivation to gut her legislation, since next year will probably bring more Senate Democrats and definitely bring a president who wants to take action, rather than one who has done everything in his power to block action and destroy the ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Drill Team Alaska senators introduce legislation to open Arctic Refuge to drilling		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:22 PM on 13 Mar 2008 Photo: Madhav Pai The push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is back on. Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens have introduced legislation that would allow drilling in the Refuge if oil should hit $125 a barrel for five straight days. (For those keeping track at home, oil prices Thursday hit a record high of $111 a barrel.) "I can't believe that they would ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Thirty years later, they still won't make us safer The history of the 'safety valve' debate	Joseph Romm	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The new publication from E&E News, ClimateWire, ($ub. req'd), has a long article on the 'safety valve' debate and its history. I will reprint it in its entirety below because The issue is important and not going away. It is the most thorough piece I've seen. I was interviewed at length for it. One of my quotes they used is not something I would have said in a short interview. First, some background: I have blogged repeatedly on why a safety valve is a ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Airport blogging Lots of important news on climate policy, hastily summarized	David Roberts	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'm at the airport, using a painfully slow wi-fi connection, boarding in about 20 min., and the 'c' key on my keyboard is on the fritz and works about once every three times I hit it. (Just what you want before a liveblogging weekend!) However, there are a few key pieces of news I need to pass along. First, today Boxer's EPW committee had a hearing with big enviro groups about the effort to pass the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. She said that Reid had cleared her to ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Canadians Are So Cute When They're Mad Canadians fear U.S. energy bill clause could disallow oil-sands exports		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:17 PM on 11 Mar 2008 A clause in the recently passed U.S. energy bill could be interpreted to prevent the U.S. from sourcing fuel from Canada's oil sands, putting Canadian officials all in a tizzy. Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act prohibits the U.S. government from purchasing alternative fuels with higher lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions than conven ...
Topics: Canada, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, oil, oil sands, politics, United States (all these topics)

Thought: Control Waxman and Markey introduce bill to ban new dirty coal plants		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 11 Mar 2008 House Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have introduced the "Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008," which would do pretty much what it sounds like: prevent new coal plants in the U.S. unless they're built with advanced pollution controls. Says Waxman, "The altemative is senseless -- locking in decades of additional global war ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, Ed Markey, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

What's wrong with the WCI? The Western Climate Initiative's first proposal ducks biggest climate problem	Eric de Place	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Western Climate Initiative is a path-breaking effort. Insufficient federal progress prompted seven states and two provinces to join together to reduce climate pollution by means of an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. It's a momentous opportunity, and many folks have been working hard to ensure that it's a success. Unfortunately, there's now cause for serious concern. Yesterday evening, WCI released its draft proposal (PDF). It proposes an initial cap that ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Pointed Defiance Bill introduced in House to overturn EPA's California decision		07 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 11:43 AM on 07 Mar 2008 A bill introduced Thursday in the House of Representatives would grant California the right to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, and pave the way for 12 other states to do the same. The U.S. EPA's decision to keep California from regulating car GHG emissions "defied the science, defied the states, and defied common sense," said bill cosponsor Peter Welch (D-V ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Look! An invisible unicorn! What powers I have! Bush touts his climate leadership	Sean Casten	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I have nothing pithy to add to this story, but only because the inanity of the quotes is so hard to top. From Restructuring Today ($ub req'd) (my emphasis on the good bits):Bush touts climate accomplishments of his administration March 6, 2008 Contrary to popular opinion, America is in the lead on global climate change and clean energy technology, President George Bush told the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference in the nation's capital yesterday ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, legislation, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Better Safe Than Sorry Senate passes consumer-safety bill that would reduce toxics in toys		06 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:28 PM on 06 Mar 2008 The U.S. Senate has passed legislation aimed at decreasing consumer exposure to dangerous products (like, oh, lead-tainted toys, to pick a random example). Specifically, the measure passed Thursday would increase the staff and budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; sharply reduce acceptable levels of lead and phthalates in toys; create a database of public compl ...
Topics: green living, green products, legislation, news, parenting, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics)

Dingell to debut House climate bill in April	David Roberts	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Dingell says he'll release a draft of a House climate change bill for comment and feedback in mid-April (sub rqd).
Topics: climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Snowballing support Congress bombarded with requests for renewable tax package	Joseph Romm	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- Over 100 retailers, manufacturers, and trade and advocacy groups have sent a familiar message to the Senate: Pass the renewable energy tax package! About two weeks ago, over 500 members of the American Council on Renewable Energy also sent a letter to Congress encouraging the renewable of the production and investment tax credits. Ever since ...
Topics: Congress, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, Washington DC (all these topics)

A storm is brewing Why the disaster trust fund is bad news	Guest author	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Britt Lundgren and Jason Funk. Britt Lundgren is an agricultural policy fellow at Environmental Defense Fund. Jason Funk is a Lokey Fellow in the Land, Water and Wildlife program at Environmental Defense Fund. ----- The recent fires in California and the severe drought in the Southeast are just two of the litany of disasters that have hit agriculture in recent memory. When natural disasters happen, members of Congress (at l ...
Topics: legislation, agriculture, politics, ag policy (all these topics)

Climate policy, auctions, and economic justice The core progressive issue in the fight over climate legislation	David Roberts	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following post was originally published on The Nation's guest blog, Passing Through, where I was in residence throughout February. It is a rudimentary introduction to cap-and-trade and the question of allocating permits, an argument (or three) in favor of auctioning permits, and a review of the political state of play around the question. The point is to get people up to speed on the crucial debate over permit auctions, which should be a central focal point for ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Why economic analysis of Lieberman-Warner will be flawed Global warming solution studies overestimate costs, underestimate benefits	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Dan Weiss, the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress, has written an excellent piece on why we can expect a series of flawed economic analyses of the Lieberman Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) in the coming months: Many of these studies will likely predict that the reductions of greenhouse gases required by the cap-and-trade system will lead to huge hikes in electric rates, reductions in jobs, and all sorts of other economic ha ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Hit 'Em Where It Hurts Chinese bosses could see salary cuts for water pollution		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:47 PM on 27 Feb 2008 China is considering a law that would cut a head honcho's income by up to half if his or her company was found to be "directly responsible for causing severe water pollution incidents." From the Archives Good Luck, Little Buddy. Renewable-energy bill passes House, likely to be short-lived. Time Is Money. Daylight-saving time leads to higher energy ...
Topics: business, China, greening biz operations, legislation, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Good Luck, Little Buddy Renewable-energy bill passes House, likely to be short-lived		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:47 PM on 27 Feb 2008 By a vote of 236-182, the House of Representatives has approved legislation that would boost renewable-energy tax incentives by repealing $18 billion in tax breaks currently enjoyed by oil and gas companies. Take a moment to enjoy that small victory, because the bill faces steep odds in the Senate, and President Bush has promised to veto it. source:� Dow Jones < Previous \| Ne ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, legislation, news, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

House tax package	David Roberts	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The House just passed the tax package that was voted down late last year as part of the energy bill. It contains tax incentives for renewables, paid for by removing some of the Big Oil subsidies from the 2005 Energy Bill. It also closes a fuel efficiency loophole for SUVs. More later.
Topics: energy, fuel efficiency, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Farm bill agonistes After all the fuss, looks like we might get an extension of the 2002 farm bill	Tom Philpott	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Photo: iStockphoto Remember the farm bill -- the omnibus federal legislation that generated so much sound and fury last year? Like a downer cow slouching toward its executioner, the farm bill still lives, sort of. The House, Senate, and president are haggling over it, squabbling over the bill's price tag and how it will be funded. If they don't hash something out by March 15, they may just extend the 2002 farm bill. Here's what Tom Harkin, chair of th ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'So when it came time to vote on Dick Cheney's energy bill, I voted no, and Senator Obama voted yes.' -- Hillary Clinton, Ohio Democratic presidential primary debate
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Well, Shoot Ban on loaded firearms in national parks may be lifted		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:14 PM on 26 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto The Interior Department plans to revise regulations banning loaded guns in national parks, and park rangers and green groups are up in arms (figuratively, of course). Current rules, which require guns to be disarmed and stowed away within park boundaries, "are not unduly burdensome, but are limited, reasonable, and necessary," says the president of the National Parks ...
Topics: Department of Interior, legislation, national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

Wasting time A safety valve in Lieberman-Warner is senseless	Joseph Romm	23 Feb 2008	Gristmill
I see no point whatsoever in passing a climate bill this year that includes a safety valve. I have blogged on this before, but it bears repeating as we appear to be getting to the endgame negotiations in the Senate on the Lieberman-Warner bill. Bottom line: If you want to get a 60% to 80% greenhouse gas cut in four decades, you just can't waste time with safety valves. We need to get to a price of $30 to $40 a ton for carbon dioxide as soon as possible -- and if ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Tasty hatin'	David Roberts	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
All you Lieberman-Warner haters will not want to miss David Sassoon's "The 10 Dominoes Toppling Lieberman-Warner."
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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