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Much is being made of the prospect of new Senate energy and climate legislation that reportedly will walk away from cap and trade in favor of a new, more politically appealing approach. (A good example is a Greenwire article tha...
Posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am | Filed in: Environment, Gas Prices, Uncategorized
In a very good article, E&E Daily News reported today that a group of senators are considering a proposal from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP America to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than a cap-and-trade system.Â...
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Environment, Oil Dependence
Sheila McNulty and Ed Crooks have a good piece in this morning's FT about recent departures from the strange-bedfellow coalition that has been the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP.
(http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe85190a-1...
Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 7:21 am | Filed in: Environment, Natural Gas, Oil Prices, Uncategorized
Yesterday, during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, President Obama publicly acknowledged that the Senate may pass an energy bill without a cap-and-trade component. (Moderates from both parties have been pushing the Administ...
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 7:11 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Legislation
The great Washington pastime of reading between the lines of the President's State of the Union address is in full swing. If the POTUS had last night said "I support the Waxman-Markey bill and ask the Senate to pass it" -- that ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence, Renewables
Reuters is reporting comments from the number two leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer (D-MD), that breathe new life into the on-going debate about whether to pass economy-boosting energy security legislation t...
Posted Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 9:41 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Environment, Uncategorized
Today's FT has an nice little blog by Kate MacKenzie entitled "Carbon emissions reduction without cap-and-trade" about various thinking on the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Let's expand on -- and maybe clarify -- ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 8:11 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Environment
Yesterday, an E&E article (subscription required) made reference to a study on greenhouse gas emissions from aviation and marine transportation by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (full report available here). Several...
Posted Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 7:45 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Environment, Transportation
As expectations of forthcoming carbon constraints, whether global or domestic, rose over the last few years, American businesses began to plan and even preempt a low-carbon competitive environment. For utilities, that meant lear...
Posted Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Environment, Legislation
In an effort to cobble together 60 votes on energy and climate legislation before the legislative session’s clock strikes midnight, ‘tripartisan’ Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) relea...
Posted Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, Nuclear
