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Chairman Ed Markey’s OPED, The race for clean-energy innovation, earns both cheers of agreement and moans of discord.
Absolutely spot on is the beginning, highlighting the truth that we are facing a
race for trillions of dollars in clean-energy investments. As President Obama says, “the nation that leads in 21st-century clean energy is the nation that will [...]

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In the health care debate, progressives are calling for single payer and made it quite clear, in a united fashion, that a (good) public option is an absolute minimum requirement. They’ve put a public bottom line front and center. And they appear to be making progress on it.
Where is that similar call when [...]

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Steven Mufson had a must-read piece re influencing in today’s Washington Post, High-Stakes Quest for Permission to Pollute: Interest Groups Press Congress for Cap-and-Trade Allowances in Climate-Change Legislation.  The article begins with a rather concerning story on changes to the bill and the impacts.
During the final days of the drafting of a 946-page climate bill, [...]

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Writ large, old cars are less fuel efficient and more polluting. Getting “clunkers” off the road can lead to many improvements. These improvements can be environmental, economic, energy, and even safety. “Cash for Clunker” programs are, in essence, subsidized scrappage programs that provide government incentives to, hopefully, achieve all of these objectives. Germany’s $3200 [...]

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Energy and Global Warming are complex, multifaceted, deep subjects. They are beyond the ability of any single person to totally master. And, a great challenge to those focused on them is seeking how to communicate, in a meaningful way, to those who don’t have the ability to dedicate huge chunks of time to learning about [...]

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Representatives and Chairmen Ed Markey and Henry Waxman released the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) as a discussion draft yesterday.  Speaking in a bloggers’ call on the bill,  Speaker Nancy Pelosi emphasized that acting on climate change is her “flagship issue” and that this is justified not just on national security, health [...]

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Tired of the unending truthiness Republican cries to DRILL, DRILL, DRILL in a disingenuous truthiness efforts that turns us (US) aside from discussion of energy efficiency and moving off fossil fuels, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) and others in the House leadership issued an ultimatum to oil companies: Drill on the [...]

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Today, Congressman Ed Markey has announced that he will introduce the the Investing in Climate Action and Protection (iCAP) Act next week.  Unlike the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Climate inSecurity Act (BLW CISA), the iCAP follows science calling for a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in covered sectors by 85 percent by 2050.  It also is serious [...]

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