Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) just unveiled their much-anticipated climate and energy bill and expressed optimism that they had the support to pass the country’s first comprehensive climate legislation.
“We are closer than we’ve ever been to a breakthrough,” Kerry said. “We want to make this the More…
At 1:30 p.m., Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil their climate bill to the public. Expect lots of talk about jobs, about ending our dependence on foreign oil, about the key role for nuclear power and clean coal. Don’t expect to hear much about climate change, More…
Below is the leaked text of the draft climate bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil tomorrow (via Post Carbon):
Looks like last month’s massive oil spill will have an impact on drilling provisions in the climate bill after all. The Washington Post reports that the climate bill Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will introduce tomorrow — without their erstwhile partner Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) More…
After Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) withdrew from the process of drafting comprehensive climate legislation last month — to protest Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) prioritization of immigration reform — observers were left wondering whether Graham would still be inclined to support the eventual bill, even if he wasn’t part of More…
Yesterday, after three Democratic senators urged their party’s leaders not to include an expansion of offshore oil drilling in climate legislation, I speculated on whether conservatives in the Democratic caucus would continue to insist on more drilling, now that the politics of the issue have taken a southward turn. More…
Along with subsidies for nuclear power, expanded offshore drilling was supposed to be one of the key provisions to win the support of Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and conservative Democrats like Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) for comprehensive climate legislation. But the past few weeks have brought a number More…
As oil from the April 20 rig explosion continues to approach the Gulf Coast, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is not backing down from his advocacy of expanded offshore oil drilling.
“We’ve had problems with car design, but you don’t stop driving,” Graham said Friday, according to The Greenville (S.C.) More…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has given Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) an ultimatum: Stop trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, or you’ll lose my support for climate legislation.
Now, Reid has called Graham’s bluff.
“I don’t know how my friend Lindsey Graham can say this kills More…
At noon, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce the fate of a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, near Cape Cod — and The Boston Globe is reporting that Salazar will be giving the project a green light.
Cape Wind will be the country’s first offshore wind More…
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