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Commerce clause The House Energy and Commerce Committee releases draft of potential climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and ranking member Rick Boucher (D-Va.) released a 'discussion draft' of their long-awaited climate change legislation today. 'This draft is the culmination of nearly two years of intensive work on climate change by the Committee and marks an important step in our ongoing efforts to address this increasingly serious problem,' wrote Dingell and Boucher in a memo to fellow committee members [PDF] today. 'Poli ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Hawk the Vote E.U. parliament to vote on climate proposals amid financial crisis		07 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 5:19 AM on 07 Oct 2008 Members of the European Parliament's environment committee on Tuesday will vote on key green initiatives proposed earlier this year, among them plans to alter the European Union's emissions-trading system, ramp up spending on carbon capture and storage technology, and eventually ban construction of new coal-fired power plants. The proposals are all part of the E.U.'s plan to cut gre ...
Topics: climate, European Union, international politics, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

And by 'permanent slowdown,' I mean economic growth and improved public health CARB shoots down the 'economy vs. environment' myth ... again	David Roberts	19 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The other day, contemplating an Economist story on geoengineering, Andrew Sullivan said, "I much prefer the idea of developing new non-carbon technologies or experimenting with technology to deflect or arrest warming to throwing the global economy into a permanent slowdown." Sullivan has no particular knowledge of or expertise on climate legislation (not a dig -- it's just not one of his interests). What he's doing here is reflexively passing along center-ri ...
Topics: green jobs, California, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, legislation, politics, health (all these topics)

Update on House action House passes minor environment-related bills and works a bit on climate	Kate Sheppard	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The House got down to some business on Thursday, working to cross a few things off its list before time runs out on the 110th Congress. It passed the Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act, which would curb speculation in the energy-futures markets. The bill was approved by a vote of 283 to 133, and it now heads to the Senate. The House also passed the No Child Left Inside Act, a bill to improve and expand environmental education. Sponsored by ...
Topics: legislation, carbon trading, carbon tax, Congress, climate, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Ready, aim ... WRI updates chart of greenhouse gas targets in 110th Congress	David Roberts	12 Sep 2008	Gristmill
As Kate reported in June, there's a new climate bill in the mix in Congress, a fairly ambitious bill from Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). The World Resources Institute has dutifully update its "Comparison of Legislative Climate Change Targets in the 110th Congress." Here's the short story (click for a larger version): As you can (barely) see, Doggett's bill is the black line toward the bottom -- t ...
Topics: climate, Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The doomed fate of climate change legislation In either an Obama or McCain adminstration, climate legislation will be back-burnered	Jason D Scorse	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Just months ago there was a palpable sense of optimism that no matter who is elected president this November that the U.S. would soon embark on serious climate change legislation. I think recent events have shown that the chances of that happening are slim to none. Let's start with if McCain is elected. Today the senator from Arizona is going to do a photo-op on an oil rig because he has become the biggest champion of increased drilling this side of the Middle ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Fred Krupp's response EDF prez says we can't afford to wait for the ideal first step	Guest author	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Fred Krupp This is a guest post from Fred Krupp, head of Environmental Defense Fund. It is a response to this post. ----- Ken Ward tracks the evolution of EDF's position on climate legislation in search of evidence that we've relented on tough global warming pollution limits since making climate change a top priority more than ten years ago. He sees our support of the Climate Security Act as a retreat from bold action, as surrender to what's merely possible i ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Environmental Defense Fund, legislation, politics (all these topics)

What about Bob? Sen. Robert Menendez chats with Grist about climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Robert Menendez. In the Senate debate over the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act last month, Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) stood out as one of the most vocal advocates for making polluters pay to emit greenhouse gases rather than giving them free carbon credits. He also spoke up about the need to spend more on clean technology and help developing countries adapt to climate shifts. Menendez floated a handful of proposed amendments to the climate le ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, interview, legislation, Muckraker, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Hill heap A weekly roundup of greenish news from the capitol	Kate Sheppard	13 Jul 2008	Gristmill
According to a new EPA analysis, the 'value of a statistical life' is now worth $6.9 million, which is nearly $1 million less than it was five years ago. This is important politically because when government agencies create regulations about things like air pollution, they use this statistical value to weigh the costs against the benefits of a proposed rule. Explains the AP, 'Consider, for example, a hypothetical regulation that costs $18 billion to enforce but will p ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Bingaman gets it right Smart ideas for post Lieberman-Warner climate policy	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Lieberman-Warner had many, many, many, many, many problems. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has just done a bit of musing ($ub. req'd) on what the next effort ought to look like; he has done a rather eloquent job outlining the problems with Lieberman-Warner and suggesting what lessons we ought to take from its failure as we advance to a better model. From Restructuring Today: The Lieberman-Warner bill didn't come close to making it through the Senate and climate legisla ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Summit of its parts Bush administration, other G8 leaders agree to halve emissions by 2050	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today at the G8 summit, which began yesterday in Hokkaido, Japan, world leaders reached a landmark deal: agreeing to cut emissions in half by 2050. The leaders agreed to 'seriously consider' this goal last year, and six of the eight leaders have been trying desperately to get George Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- who continued to resist mandatory cuts as of Monday -- on board. That is, until a breakthrough today. Well, sort of: The Bush admi ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Sally 4th Sierra Club prompts voters to call legislators about energy bills over the holiday weekend	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Sierra Club began running radio ads this week in six states whose U.S. senators are key votes for energy legislation. Though both Republicans and Democrats were hoping to have accomplished something so they could go home for the holiday and claim victory, Congress went into recess for the 4th of July holiday this week in a deadlock over energy policy. Sierra Club's ads are intended to prompt voters to call their senators about two pieces of legislation: the Co ...
Topics: climate, Congress, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

No shame in our game Climate policy isn't a pill to swallow, it's a way off a sinking ship	David Roberts	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This Ezra Klein post echoes what has rather rapidly become conventional wisdom among progressives on climate legislation, and it makes me want to tear my hair out. The idea is that climate legislation will inevitably hurt people financially in the short-term, in order to secure environmental benefits in the distant future, so the only way to get it through is with a bunch of obscurantist double-talk to bore or distract people in the hopes that you can sneak something ...
Topics: climate, economy, gas prices, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 6 What the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill debate tells us	Joseph Romm	30 Jun 2008	Gristmill
No, 450 is not politically possible today. Okay, that was clear before. But the debate over the Climate Security Act made it clear that it won't be politically possible anytime soon, for two reasons: The vast majority of conservatives have not budged an inch on climate science even in the face of now overwhelming direct scientific observation and a much deeper and broader scientific understanding of the dangerous impact of unrestricted human greenhouse gas emissio ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Hill heap A weekly roundup of greenish news from the Capitol	Kate Sheppard	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Some political news debris from this week: The League of Conservation Voters announced today that they've created the first green bundling site. This allows folks to donate en masse to green candidates around the country. LCV will direct the funds to the candidates it will support this year in Senate and House races. Just off his big Everglades restoration deal, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist hosted a conference on climate change. Crist's friend and Californi ...
Topics: climate, Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Achieving the climate goal Short-term targets key to long-term stabilization	Tony Kreindler	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ken Ward takes a worthwhile look at the goalposts for U.S. climate policy in his argument for making 350 parts per million the new bright line for success. We agree that we need to aim lower than 450 ppm -- the world is at roughly 380 ppm now, and we're already witnessing adverse climate impacts. But we part ways when it comes to how we're going to get there. Ward suggests that EDF's support for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act can't be reconciled with a s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A modern-day Cassandra Thoughts on the 20th anniversary of James Hansen's historic Congressional testimony	Representative Ed Markey	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy -- of seeing the future. But she was also cursed to have no one believe her. For far too many years, Dr. James Hansen has been a modern-day Cassandra. Gifted with a scientific training that allowed him to see the forces at work that are warming the planet, for too many years he was also not believed by many who chose to ignore or deny the scientific reality of global warming. Today, it is my pleas ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, Ed Markey, James Hansen, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Maximum impact Will California's climate change regulations mandate maximum emission reductions?	Ken Johnson	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
[This post is follow-up to a David Roberts post from Jan. '08: "What does California's climate bill mandate?"] Sometime later this month, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will release its draft 'Scoping Plan' on implementation of the state's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), which requires that statewide GHG emissions be reduced to or below 1990-level emissions by 2020. AB 32 also requires that the regulations ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Climate change ideas for On Day One A UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This week marks the twentieth anniversary of NASA Scientist James Hansen's groundbreaking Congressional testimony on global warming, an event that put climate change squarely on the political agenda. In honor of the anniversary, UN Dispatch, On Day One, and Grist are partnering to discuss ideas the next president can adopt to take on climate change. We are joined by a panel of experts who will weigh in on ideas submitted to On Day One by every ...
Topics: climate, energy, James Hansen, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Back to Nature Nature publishes my climate analysis and solution	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here is perhaps my most succinct and citable explanation of why 'Both national and global climate policy (PDF) must redirect its focus from setting a price on carbon to promoting the rapid deployment of clean technologies' (online here). True, I didn't think I would appear in Nature again. But Nature online asked me for my critique of the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Bill bill, and they were open to a big-picture commentary based on the latest climate science. They even r ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

House party Yet another climate bill introduced in the House; greens applaud	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Since climate change legislation failed to gather steam in the Senate this month, all eyes are now on the House. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) has been promising a bill for months. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, put out an ambitious bill in early June. Today, Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) added their own legislatio ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Mildly different Are McCain's environmental views really so far from Bush's?	David Roberts	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller says, "On the environment ... Mr. McCain has strikingly different views from Mr. Bush." Is that true? Bush wants unstinting federal support and pork for the nuclear industry. He supports "clean coal." He is against raising CAFE standards on automobiles or boosting efficiency and performance standards on other individual economic sectors. He supports removing the moratorium on offshore drilling. He believes in ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, John McCain, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The Brownstein diagnosis What went wrong on Lieberman-Warner?	David Roberts	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ron Brownstein -- for my money the best political reporter out there -- examines the implosion of the Lieberman-Warner bill in National Journal. Here's his three-paragraph summary of what went wrong: The bill would have established enough boards and regulations that the chamber [of commerce] was able to distribute a devastating chart, modeled on those used against Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan in 1993, that portrayed the proposal as an impossibly tang ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Oh say can you CCS? Boucher and Upton introduce bipartisan legislation to invest in carbon sequestration technology	Kate Sheppard	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and ranking minority member Fred Upton (R-Mich.) introduced industry-backed legislation on Wednesday to invest billions of dollars in carbon capture-and-sequestration (CCS) technology. The bill [PDF] is intended to 'accelerate the development and early deployment of systems for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel electric generation facilities.' It would create ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Dingell dangle Dingell promises climate bill friendlier to manufacturers	Kate Sheppard	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) has been saying for months now that a climate bill from his committee is on the way. Yesterday he talked about his pending legislation to industry folks, promising it would be friendlier to their interests than the Senate bill that failed last week: Dingell told the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association, the auto supplier trade association, at a luncheon on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the cl ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

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