Well, it’s official. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is seeking the ranking spot on the House Natural Resources Committee. If he gets it, he’ll leave his position as the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce energy and environment subcommittee.
But it turns out he’s not the only one seeking More…
Here’s a quick recap of the midterm results from last night that have implications for energy/climate/environmental policy.
It was mostly bad news for House Democrats who voted for the chamber’s cap-and-trade bill. The two most stinging defeats were Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who worked furiously behind the scenes to 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…
Once PG&E discovered that a natural gas pipeline had exploded in San Bruno, Calif., earlier this month, employees from the utility company had to drive in rush-hour traffic to manually turn off two separate safety valves in order to stop the flow of gas that was fueling the blaze. It More…
Tomorrow, the House Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the oil pipeline break that spilled about 1 million gallons of oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. The hearing will allow lawmakers to question federal officials about pipeline safety for the first time since the More…
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Mich.) sent a letter this week to Enbridge Energy, the owner of the pipeline that burst in Michigan last week, asking for more information on the oil spill. The lawmakers also sent letters to the More…
The House passed an oil spill response package today in a 209-193 vote, despite strong objections from Republicans.
The package passed after hours of floor debate. Republicans argued that the bills are ill conceived, would kill jobs and are too far-reaching.
The latest development in the battle over Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s mileage tax proposal: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) rips into White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for shooting down LaHood’s suggestion.
From Jake Tapper:
In an interview with Congressional Quarterly, Oberstar said that
It’s no news that many liberal critics of the Democrats’ stimulus plan are wondering why so much would go toward tax rebates and so little, relatively speaking, would target infrastructure projects. And those voices found new reason to be critical today.
A report released by the American Society of More…
When House Democratic leaders unveiled their $825 billion stimulus wish-list last week, it marked only the beginning of a much longer process to forge the proposal upon which many argue the economy depends.
Indeed, the House Appropriations Committee yesterday tweaked the bill a bit, adding amendments requiring that projects More…
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