The local media in West Virginia are having a hard time stomaching the campaign ads (and national news coverage) of the suddenly competitive Senate race in their home state. Governor Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) might be a lot of things, they argue, but he’s no enemy of the coal industry More…
Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) decried as “wrong” a New Yorker story that says the senator would have supported a cap-and-trade bill, but didn’t want to complicate Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s primary campaign.
Our sister publication The Florida Independent notes that LeMieux pushed back against the New Yorker story More…
Though Senate Democrats say there won’t be much time in the lame-duck session to pass significant energy legislation, environmentalists know it could be their last chance to move key bills, given the potential for Republicans to make gains in the mid-term elections. I wrote about this in a story More…
This year, Congress passed the most ambitious agenda in recent memory, overhauling how the nation regulates banks and financial products and dramatically reforming the health-care system. President Obama had hoped to add comprehensive energy legislation — with a cap-and-trade program — to that list, but the Senate failed to move More…
President Obama, in an interview with Rolling Stone published on the web today, said he would push to pass energy legislation next year. While his commitment is significant, Obama stopped just short of saying he would push for significant climate change legislation that caps carbon emissions.
Obama said he More…
The GOP’s 21-page “Pledge to America” proposal, released today, is mostly silent on energy policy. In fact, the proposal summarizes Republicans’ energy policy in one sentence. The plan? Increase domestic energy production, and oppose cap-and-trade.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who unveiled this week a stand-alone bill that would require a certain percentage of the country’s energy to come from renewable sources, said today that comprehensive climate legislation won’t be able to pass the Senate in the next two years.
With Congress returning this week, I thought it would be a good time to do a quick overview of what to expect on energy and environmental legislation.
The short answer: not much.
Still smarting from the Senate’s failure to pass climate legislation or even a scaled-down energy bill this year, environmentalists are huddling to come up with a new messaging strategy — one they hope will inspire action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The New York Times published this morning an analysis of the top campaign issues discussed on the websites of members of the House that are in close reelection races.
While health care emerged as the top issue on the sites, energy was mentioned as a key issue on 72 More…
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