The Washington Post reports on President Obama’s new strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
A White House official said energy would remain a top priority for the administration but would be packaged differently.
Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) has lost his re-election bid tonight to Republican opponent Morgan Griffith, the Associated Press says. Though Boucher had an early lead in the race, recent polls showed the race to be tight.
Boucher may very well be one of the first Democrats to lose a seat, More…
There are a lot of these sort of lists floating around today, but I couldn’t help chiming in. So, without further ado, here’s my list of the races with the biggest climate/energy/environment implications:
Senate:
Alaska: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is facing off against Republican Joe Miller, a Tea Party favorite, and More…
The Washington Post reports on the difficult situation the United States is in going into United Nations climate change talks in Cancun at the end of the month.
The atmosphere is very different from a year ago, when U.S. negotiators headed to Copenhagen touting the recent success of a
Melody Barnes, President Obama’s top domestic policy adviser, said today that the Obama administration does not have second thoughts about pushing health care legislation before a cap-and-trade bill. Some have argued that the administration’s aggressive push to pass a health care bill took the wind out of the sails of More…
Jessica Barba, campaign spokeswoman for Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), tells TWI that President Obama will stump for the embattled Democrat on Friday in Charlottesville, Va.
Obama’s visit comes just days before the midterm elections. Perriello is in a tight race with his Republican opponent, state Sen. Robert Hurt. Hurt has More…
The Boston Globe ran a fantastic story Sunday about the lessons Congress can learn from the passage 20 years ago of a successful cap-and-trade program to combat acid rain.
From the Globe:
Yet even as scientists confirm the extraordinary success of the 1990 acid rain legislation, some say its
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder says Carol Browner, President Obama’s climate and energy policy adviser, is a “plausible candidate” to become White House chief of staff.
He says:
Democrats connected with the White House say that Carol Browner, currently, the president’s senior adviser on energy and the environment, and the
Because everybody loves to read about climate policy on their days off, here’s a Politico discussion with key energy and climate wonks on whether Congress and the Obama administration should give up on pushing for a cap-and-trade bill. Enjoy!
The League of Conservation Voters today added California’s Proposition 23 to its “Dirty Dozen” list, the first time a the environmental group has placed a ballot initiative on the listing of congressional candidates with poor environmental records.
LCV President Gene Karpinski told reporters today that Prop 23 is “the single More…
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