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!
In an interview with The Washington Independent, Sierra Club Deputy National Campaign Director Melinda Pierce said prospects for passage of significant energy legislation in the lame-duck session or next year are unclear.
On the lame-duck session, Pierce said: “It can either all collapse and they’re in and out of here 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…
Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have introduced an energy tax incentives bill that they are urging the Senate to pass before the end of the year. The bill includes tax incentives for homes and businesses that invest in energy efficiency, manufacturers of clean energy technology and developers More…
As I reported yesterday, electric vehicles advocates are confident they’ll get a vote on their proposal proposal to incentivize the vehicles in 2011. Well, it looks like that vote could come sooner.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is circulating around Capitol Hill a proposal that would allow nuclear and coal with carbon capture and storage technology to count toward the country’s clean energy mandate.
Graham’s “clean energy standard” is a potential threat to the support that Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback More…
The head of the Electrification Coalition says he is confident that a proposal to incentivize electric vehicles will pass Congress next year as part of a narrow energy bill.
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…
Natural Resources Defense Council International Climate Policy Director Jake Schmidt told reporters on a conference call today that the United States needs to convince other countries that it will take action to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in order to be taken seriously at upcoming United Nations climate negotiations.
“Uncertainty More…
The Senate is expected to recess this week (likely between Wednesday and Friday) in order to give lawmakers campaigning time ahead of the November mid-term elections. While few thought senators could get anything significant done on energy before the midterms, it’s now all but certain.
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