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My political life, other than the unending outrage over the Trump kakistocracy outrages, is dominated by the need to #FlipThe10th — to get rid of #ExtremistComstock and do my part for adding one D to the House.  With that in mind, it is hard with everything in life to be watching with detail races around the […]

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If the US Senate has, collectively, any substantive understanding of science, concern about American security, and desire for American prosperity into the future, there will be climate legislation. Sadly, with Anti-Science Syndrome suffering Haters Of a Livable Economic Society dominating one of America’s two major political parties and with Climate Peacocks mewing their way around […]

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Since before the 2008 election, the core challenge for the incoming President was clear: JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Yes, we were amid a collapse of the economic system, it required stabilization. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Yes, our energy situation was (is) a mess and the climate is boiling. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! Yes, our political system is broken. […]

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Senators Kerry and Lieberman are, as is understood, planning to release the American Power Act Wednesday morning. Initial material has ‘leaked’, including a two-page summary (graciously transcribed from a pdf version to text by the Wonkroom) and a 21 page section-by-section “for staff use only” available on the Washington Post website. By my nature, I […]

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Our combined energy and climate challenges and opportunities are incredibly complex and interrelated issues. Throw in other resource challenges, economic challenges, and a myriad of other factors and, well, the complexity can overwhelm any and all. Clarity of targets matter. Ever more experts are endorsing the call to create a path to return the atmospheric […]

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In the will they, won’t they, those fighting for climate change mitigation wait to see whether Kerry-Graham-Lieberman will drop a climate bill and, if they do so, what will it contain. There are many ways to judge what comes out but the simplest and, for me, most important is to consider basic principles. At their […]

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While remaining uncertain as to just how bad it is, the concerns that KGL will cross the line from mediocrity to counterproductive are increasing. Here is a guest post from Craig Altemose laying out how he sees that line having already passed. For the past year and a half or so, I have been largely […]

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Courtesy of Enviroknow, some resources re the coming Kerry-Graham-Lieberman “climate” (???) legislation: — It is expected to be dropped this coming Monday, aka Offshore Drilling Day. — The rollout next week apparently won’t actually include the introduction of the bill.  It will be handed over to Senator Reid so he can bring it directly to […]

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Friday, the Center for Climate Strategies released a study showing that making national policy of 23 measures already in play in Red and Blue and Purple states across the nation would lead to millions of additional jobs and significant carbon reductions. This study shows, quite clearly, that serious climate mitigation efforts should not be discussed […]

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“The Social Cost of Carbon may be the most important number you’ve never heard of” according to Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth Stanton in a recent publication from the Economics for Equity and the Environment Network. The Social Cost of Carbon (pdf) analyzes the efforts within the U.S. government to develop a value of the economic […]

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