Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters on a conference call today that he is still working on energy legislation and that he has not ruled out including a renewable energy standard in that bill. The news is sure to please the renewable energy industry, which has More…
Controversial climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg will call global warming “a challenge humanity must confront” and push for a massive global financial investment to confront this issue, according to The Guardian. The Danish academic, whose change in position just happens to be timed with the release of his new More…
The Washington Post today reports that, having suffered a series of legislative losses over the last year, environmentalists are working to gain back their influence.
It’s a story that has been written many times before; the real question going forward is how exactly environmentalists plan to rally.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today that he will not hold a floor vote on an energy and oil spill response bill this week, the latest delay in a months-long effort to pass legislation to address the massive disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and reform the way More…
The same day that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that he did not have the votes to pass a cap-and-trade bill, even a scaled-down utility-only version, news broke that China has decided to institute its own cap-and-trade system, though the details remain fuzzy.
Why is this significant? More…
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes today that an energy bill with a cap on carbon emissions, even a scaled-down cap on the power sector, is dead.
Klein argues that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) refusal last week to use the words cap-and-trade — or, for that matter, More…
Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) hasn’t even been sworn in as a U.S. senator, but he’s already making waves. First, his colleague-to-be announced that he’d be voting for the long-delayed unemployment benefits extension. And now Goodwin has come out against the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, saying the House bill and the Senate More…
With the odds of an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions fast approaching zero, the White House is speaking favorably about a cap on just the utility sector as part of an energy bill. So how effective would a utilities-only cap be?
President Obama is stepping up his engagement on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill this week, conducting a two-day tour of the Gulf states and returning to make his first speech from the Oval Office on Tuesday, in which he’ll lay out his plan to force BP to create More…
Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University yesterday, President Obama did what environmental advocates have been urging him to do for weeks now: He turned public anger at the BP oil spill to his advantage, using it to push for comprehensive climate legislation.
“We have to acknowledge that there are inherent risks More…
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