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Reid: Senate floor action before Copenhagen remains on agenda

Buried in the E&E News (subs. req’d) story this morning about the Kerry-Boxer bill is this piece of news: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said floor action this year […]

New EPA Rule Requirements

LOS ANGELES – U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will announce today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate Summit that the Agency has taken a significant […]

Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act an improvement over House bill on offsets

With respect to offsets, the Kerry-Boxer bill is a distinct improvement over the ACES [Waxman-Markey]. It allows a relatively strong approach to offset integrity, avoiding negative social or environmental effects, […]

Nike runs fast and loud from the incredible, shrinking U.S. Chamber Board

Nike has put on its running shoes and bolted from the incredible, shrinking industry group’s board, like so many others (see “Will last company to leave the Chamber’s Boardroom please […]

Senate GOP propose 25% ‘Do-Nothing’ energy tax

  MEMO TO THE MEDIA:  The nation’s energy and climate problems have reached the point where obstructionist politicians cannot be given a free pass to simply criticize those attempting to […]

Kerry-Boxer clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill sharply departs from House

The final bill will not be unveiled until tomorrow, but Senators Kerry and Boxer (and their cosponsers) have managed to put together a bill that I believe is environmentally, economically […]

UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change

Finally, some of the top climate modelers in the world have done a “plausible worst case scenario,” as Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley […]

WashPost recycles another denier WSJ op-ed, this time from coal apologist Bjorn Lomborg

Questions of the Day:  Is this just a desperate attempt by The Washington Post to drive traffic to its website, by publishing outrageous crap designed to stir controversy?  Is it […]

Markey spokesman questions Breakthrough Institute

“Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” Those words, “attributed” to the […]

Obama is going to Copenhagen to push Chicago’s Olympic bid this week

  President Barack Obama, who initially planned to let First Lady Michelle Obama represent the United States in Copenhagen this week, when the International Olympic Committee chooses a site for […]